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...thousands of investigators. "Sociobiology really is a scientific discipline and not a view of nature," he says, while Spencer set out to find a scientific order justifying the state of his society. Wilson says his own synthesis is both objective and dispassionate. "Spencer gave an explanation of a splendid Victorian world," Wilson said. "We are now dealing with the precise theories on the evolution of altruism...
Image of Horror. The movie is vastly ambitious, but it is also jaunty and diverting. There is time for an affection ate send-up of Bertolucci: Giannini's en trance into a Neapolitan music hall, stupidly splendid with a cigarette holder and snap-brim hat, recalls The Conform ist. There are some good visual puns...
...both stirring and excruciating: "We both of us want a marriage that is a tremendous living thing, always alive, always hot, not dead and easy in parts as most marriages are. We ask a great deal of rife, don't we? Perhaps we shall get it; then, how splendid...
...Sierra Madre blowing away in the Mexican wind. Huston includes many of the visual asides and unguarded gestures - like a village chieftain preparing for a beheading by sharpening his sword on a stone wall - that have always given his work such rich texture. Caine and Connery make a splendid couple of cronies, full of bluff and swagger...
...there is more to Pete Fitzsimmons the runner than just a list of accomplishments. "He has a splendid attitude, he likes to run, and he is oriented to working hard and steady," McCurdy says. "But even more, he's a great competitor...