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...thinks it will require recognizing that consciousness is something "over and above the physical" and then building a theory some might call metaphysical. This word has long been out of vogue in philosophy, and even Chalmers uses it only under duress, since it makes people think of crystals and Shirley MacLaine. He prefers "psychophysical...
...ways in which even the subtlest contributions of directors, writers and actors shape the final product. The directors, writers and actors who speak here feel responsible in varying degrees for the implications of their films. Farley Granger describes the actors' awareness of the homosexual themes in "Rope," while Shirley Maclaine wonders at the production of "The Children's Hour," a film wholly concerned with lesbianism, during which the words and ideas of homosexuality were never even mentioned...
...opening that Alexander hopes to exploit. The "lesser of three evils" is how he's described by Ron Stump, 46, a military veteran and now a student in industrial distribution in Lexington, Nebraska. To put it another way, an indefinable aura of middleness is his greatest strength. Shirley Ferris, 72, an Alexander supporter in Lompoc, California, says there isn't any particular position of his that attracts her: "He seems like he's an honest man. He's a little more middle of the road, not so far off, like Buchanan...
...sternest judgment. They were murdered--and a good thing too--in Caged and Suddenly, Last Summer. The nicer ones were left to their own misery, suicide being the only solution for characters who either had a homosexual fling (Don Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play The Boys in the Band to find good news amid the woe. As one character noted, "Not all faggots bump themselves...
THOUGH THE NRC'S MISSION STATEMENT promises full accountability--"nuclear regulation is the public's business," it says--the agency's top officials at first refused to be interviewed by TIME. After repeated requests, Chairwoman Shirley Ann Jackson, a physics professor who was appointed by President Clinton last summer, finally agreed to talk. But the veteran official in charge of the agency's day-to-day operations, executive director James M. Taylor, would provide only written answers to TIME's faxed questions...