Word: vics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drug is also enabling doctors to take some tentative yet encouraging steps toward treating Huntington's chorea, a genetically-determined degenerative nerve disease that strikes its vic tims at about the age of 40 and kills them within 15 years. A group headed by Dr. Leslie Iverson, 36, of the British Medical Research Council's Division of Neurochemical Pharmacology, has been studying the chemical changes in brains of Huntington's victims. The team has found that victims of the disease have lower-than-normal quantities of the transmitter gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and occasionally-elevated amounts...
...Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31) and the Chelsea Theater Center's sparkling revival of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. This week Lichtenstein unveils his greatest coup yet: a three-month season by three top British repertory companies. Playgoers will be able to see the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Young Vic and the Actors Company hi productions ranging from Shakespeare's Richard II through Chekhov's Wood Demon to a semidramatized reading of Sylvia Plath's poems...
Having adopted the Dean-Brando mold, Eastman then cracks it. He never takes advantage of his characters, never looks down on them or their poorest dreams. Yet he does make it clear that Vic's accurate reading of the situation-why should he assume the burden of anyone's ambitions but his own?-is also a dodge. His idea of freedom is a sort of emotional copout, a yearning not so much to find something as to be away from everything. In this most of all, Eastman suggests, Vic is the all-American...
Eastman has a quirkish, distinctly personal tone that goes coy once in a while, as in a labored double-entendre exchange between Vic and a black woman (Rosalind Cash) over the installation of a car radio ("Do you want it in the front or in the back?"). But the movie is also full of humor, melancholy and some dazzling film making. This is Eastman's first film as a director, but he demonstrates considerable sophistication, a feeling for textures and odd nuances. One long scene in a gym-empty at first, then slowly filling with fighters doing exercises...
Filmed in 1970, The All-American Boy is being released after a great deal of infighting during which it acquired a leper-like reputation in the trade. The published screenplay (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.50) disclosed that, fully realized, the film would have been considerably longer and rather less oblique. Vic would have been blessed and cursed by occasional shafts of self-knowledge. As it is, Voight's performance consists of careful character shadings that can only add tone to a silhouette. In more concise roles, the supporting performances are sharper. Carol Androsky as Vic's sister...