Word: silvera
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right now, no one--not even Nature--may be as close as Professor of Physics Isaac F. Silvera to creating metallic hydrogen...
...while Silvera and his three-man research team know they are close to their goal, they are not sure what will happen if they succeed...
...often the big American hits like E.T., which sold 690,000 tickets in the first two weeks of its Paris run. The French are probably the most cosmopolitan fans in the world. "We will go see a Portuguese film one week and a Turkish one the next," says Marc Silvera, an official of the Centre National de la Cinématographic. "We are more open to films in other languages than the Americans or the British, and are willing to tolerate subtitles and dubbings. That makes the choice here much more diverse. There is something for everyone...
...France has a booming film industry of its own. Sophisticated as they may be, even the French like to see movies made at home, starring actors they can identify with. "You simply can't have a strong filmgoing climate unless you have a healthy domestic film product," says Silvera. "Britain and Italy have learned that to their distress." Though Americans are familiar with titles like The Last Metro and La Cage aux Folles, most French movies, which lean toward police thrillers, comedies and love stories, never cross the Atlantic, since distributors are convinced that they would not find...
...Silvera did both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a student of Tinkham's. Before he went to Amsterdam, he worked on basic research at a laboratory operated by the aerospace corporation Rockwell International...