Word: sheparded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Charles Shepard, 70, medical researcher with the federal Centers for Disease Control and a leading expert on leprosy, who in 1960 first succeeded in growing in lab animals the microbe that causes leprosy, a breakthrough that enabled scientists to test potential treatments and preventive measures much more quickly; of an apparent heart attack; in Atlanta. In 1976, Shepard was also one of two CDC researchers who isolated the elusive bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease...
This season's "regular" shows will run for seven weeks, starting with Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," which opened last night. The season's offerings include more notable "firsts," such as a weekend of staged readings of original student works and the combination of two shorter plays--Shepard's "Savage Love" and "Touch and Cage Games" by Bradley K. Marshall '85 which address similar themes...
...long-lost wife (Nastassja Kinski). Welcome to the new West, pardner, where the myth of the loner is yoked to the grail of domestic reconciliation. No wonder Paris, Texas is as powerfully schizoid as its title: German director (Wim Wenders), American screenwriter (Sam Shepard), the clashing strategies of an international cast. With his gorgeous, precise images of the American Southwest, Wenders suggests a cinematic landscape artist forced by the moneylenders to add some human figures to the picture. Their motivations refuse to parse, and the film ends up where Travis began: parched and lost in a desert...
Current Dudley House Master Arthur L. Loeb is apparently content with his 29 Shepard St. home...
Until a climax too calculated to stir the emotions, Screenwriter William D Wittliff and Director Richard Pearce navigate a careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...