Word: sheldon
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...world, used to going your own way and having your own way. Suddenly an accident immobilizes you in bed. There is almost nothing you can do for yourself. All of us have at least briefly tasted the anxiety of this situation, so we can sympathize with romance novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan), flat on his back with two broken legs, a broken arm and multiple cuts and contusions, products of a car accident on a slippery mountain road during a blizzard...
...despair: Science has made some progress towards grand unification. In 1967, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam managed to unify two of the forces, the electromagnetic and the weak, into one "electroweak" force. Together with Harvard's Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon Glashow, the two won the 1979 Nobel Prize for their work...
...Medicine, Physiology Konrad E. Bloch 1964 Medicine, Physiology Julian S. Schwinger 1965 Physics Robert Burns Woodward 1965 Chemistry George Wald 1967 Medicine, Physiology Simon S. Kuznets 1971 Economics Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics Wassily W. Leontif 1973 Economics William N. Lipscomb 1976 Chemistry John H. Van Vleck 1977 Physics Sheldon L. Glashow 1979 Physics Steven Weinberg 1979 Physics Baruj Benacerraf 1980 Medicine, Physiology Walter Gilbert 1980 Chemistry David Hubel 1981 Medicine Torsten Wiesel 1981 Medicine Nicolaas Bloembergen 1981 Physics Carlo Rubbia 1984 Physics Bernard Lown 1985 Peace Dudley Herschbach 1986 Chemistry Norman F. Ramsey 1989 Physics Joseph E. Murray...
MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT, by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow; 399 pages; $21.95), is one of a large and growing subgenre of evil-Greek-shipowner thrillers. Nasty fellows, those fictional Greek shipowners. This one, rich and loathsome Constantin Demiris, has arranged that his unfaithful mistress and her lover, Demiris' pilot, be executed for the supposed murder of the pilot's wife, beautiful, trusting American Catherine Alexander. But he is still angry, and he strides about his villa like Richard III, gloating in a long, italic aside about what he is going to do to Catherine, who lost her memory during a boat explosion...
BEST SELLERS: Lady Boss by Jackie Collins -- The latest Hollywood antics of a daughter to the Mob. The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough -- 110 B.C. and all that. Four Past Midnight by Stephen King -- Novellas from the horror master. Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon -- Another plot-till-you-plotz spy novel. Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher -- Star Wars, WordStar, it all comes easy to this actress-author. The Plains of Passage by Jean Auel -- Another big woolly mammoth from the queen of ice-age romance...