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Comment on recent court rulings added considerable heat to the debate. Arkansas' John McClellan, his voice hoarse and quaking, asked: "Do you favor a continuation of rulings that push the spiral of crime upward and upward? We had better quit trying to find alibis and excuses as to why the law cannot be enforced and get down to enforcing it." In one remarkable bit of rhetoric, Louisiana's Russell Long explained why American Bar Association lawyers opposed the attempt to curb the court. "They have a vested interest in crime," said Long. "Why should they give...
...approximates both. The plot careens arrogantly through a disequence of scenes, no connections provided: the junkyard; Twelvetrees in a hallway, in a bathroom; Anastasia on a long walk; Twelvetrees making love to Samantha; Blaine in his telephone booth. If we seize on any pattern, it may be a crazy spiral about Anastasia herself, about her diffuse Presence. But "spiral" promises too much. Montage is better, montage through time (close your eyes and picture Dream), fishcakes, a patchwork of dreams, none preparing us for the next, each visually striking in itself, together creating an effect of speed...
...Harvard and Radcliffe students who leave each year to go to mental hospitals, the trip to the other side is more often a slow, sad spiral than a sudden leap. In recent interviews, nine students who have been at McLean Hospital, a large, private, Harvard-staffed institution in Belmont, talked about freaking out--why they went, where they went, and what they found...
...structure of the heredity-determining DNA molecule, a major feat for which he and British Scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins eventually shared a Nobel prize. Now, 15 years later, he has written a highly literate day-by-day account of his experiences (the title is drawn from the spiral-staircase shape of DNA). The book will lead readers to important discoveries of their own: scientific research is not necessarily the calm, orderly process so tritely portrayed in modern legend, and scientists are all too human...
...yellow bus and drove through the English countryside for three weeks, improvising dialogue and filming whatever struck their fancy. The result, often played to a soundtrack of their latest songs, was a disjointed series of daydreams, nightmares, cloudscapes, reveries and slapstick skits ending with the foursome prancing down a spiral staircase in white tie and tails in a takeoff of a 1930s Hollywood musical. "We didn't worry about the fact that we didn't know anything about making films" said Beatle Paul. "We realized years ago you don't need knowledge in this world...