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...Stephen F. Vatner, associate professor of medicine and a researcher at the New England Primate Center, said yesterday that stray dogs ands cats are better for scientific work because they give a wider range of results...
...understatement is the cornerstone of the Ely style. In person and in writing, his is dry, slightly cynical humor that allows him to stray just so far from the serious mien he adopts toward his subjects. He appears reluctant to discuss his personal life, but eager to hold forth on his theories, straightforwardly but not pompously. Clarity, too, seems an Ely hallmark--even an analysis as complex as that of Democracy and Distant comes across clearly and colorfully in his hands, as Ely's occasional asides temper the book's serious analysis...
...only a few Warren Court decisions would stray from Ely's "representation-reinforcing" approach, most notably the decisions finding new personal rights, like that to privacy. But since most of the key decisions likely to face the Court soon deal with alleged personal rights (like the abortion decision nine years ago), the liberals rebut an Ely esque Court could have a conservative impact, indeed...
Read never allows Milson's ordeal to stray into abstractions. His characters talk about history and ethics, but they enact them as well. Questions blossom from events. Why is Ludley methodically drinking himself to death? Why does his wife want him to sleep with Helen, a runaway English schoolgirl who has fetched up at the villa? And why is Ludley, who once spouted Nietzsche and spurned conventional behavior, resisting...
...friends--quickly pasted and cardboarded stereotypes--are simply four losers who keep ending up on each other's doorsteps like stray cats. Danelo (Craig Wasson). The son of Yugoslay immigrants toys with writing poetry and playing the clarinet; Tom (Jim Metzler) provides the he-man silent type, meaning he has only a half-dozen lines; David (Michael Huddleston) is the chubby, balding Jewish son of an undertaker who inherits the business; and Georgia (Jodi Thelen), a vivacious, lusty young debauchka who drives all three boys to be forever singing "Georgia in My Mind." Georgia is supposed to be dynamic...