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...Lasse Hallstrom ("My Life as a Dog") is an unobtrusive craftsman who lets his actors breathe in an easy, unforced way. And Gena Rowlands is simply great in a scene where she breaks the silence of the years in a richly emotional encounter with her husband. "Her performance," says Shickel, "is emblematic of a movie that, a few sideslips into familiar sentiment aside, never lets its political correctness interfere with its delight in human incorrectness...
...Made the Movies. Richard Shickel's intelligent documentary series on film directors. Tonight: The work of Alfred Hitchcock, with clips from "Saboteur" (1942), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), "North By Northwest" (1959), "Psycho" (1960), "The Birds" (1963), "Torn Curtain" (1966) and "Frenzy" (1972). Ch. 44, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...leftist. When Rainey was fired, three years ago, Frank Dobie told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding a bootlicker or a quisling...." A few days later, the regents named Theophilus Shickel Painter, a mild-mannered zoology professor, as president. Governor Coke Stevenson told the regents that, if he were one of them, he would fire Dobie "without batting...
Mild-mannered Theophilus Shickel Painter, a geneticist, likes to peer through microscopes, putter in his water-lily garden and hunt in season. As shy as a deer, he makes a fetish of avoiding publicity. But last week Professor Painter, who had been acting president of the University of Texas since 1944, saw and heard his name everywhere he turned...
...fruit fly's germ cells are no larger than .00015 inch long, minute dots and streaks under the best microscopes. The chromosomes in the fly's salivary glands, however, are 70 times bigger than those in the germ-plasm, and two years ago Dr. Theophilus Shickel Painter of University of Texas took pioneer photographs of these tiny giants showing cross-bands. Then Dr. Bridges made such good photomicrographs of the salivary chromosomes that the crossbands marking gene locality came even more clearly to view, and the bands themselves were seen to be dotted or segmented (TIME...