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...ensure accurate results, the women will be confined to a ward "where other drug use cannot influence results and where the safety and comfort of the women can be insured," according to the proposal...
...Rescuers emerged carrying blood-soaked buckets filled with limbs and tattered flesh. The Marines kept insisting that several comrades might still be found alive in the basement, but such hopes seemed futile. By the end of the first day, the searchers had donned masks' to ward off the stench of death...
...OPENING has Mowat sitting in the middle of a glacial field, attempting to ward off an enveloping blizzard with the comical and futile bureaucratic gesture of typing a work report. By the end of the film he is running stark naked in the midst of a stampeding herd of caribou. Neither scenes are models of scientific investigation--let alone verisimilitude--but they serve admirable to frame Mowat's journey into awareness through the medium of Ballard's slightly surreal vision. If at times the meshing of beguiling photography with the Tangerine Dream-like score begins dangerously to suggest Jean-Jacques...
...RIGHT STUFF begins in 1947 at Edwards Air Force Base, where we first meet some of the men who a decade later will become astronauts: Cooper (Dennis Quaid), Grissom (Fred Ward) and Deke Slayton (Scott Paulin). Along the way NASA adds Glenn (Ed Harris). Alan Sheperd (Scott Glenn). Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank) and Wally Schirra (Larrie Henriksen). But Yeager remains on the California desert to continue his test runs which seem every bit as heroic as his counterparts' trips into space. As portrayed by the playwright Sam Shepard, Yeager stands above the rest. His humility, perseverance and courage imply that...
...cajoled people to vote. Next we canvassed a few housing projects in the Roxbury area. including Academy Homes, an enormous and economically depressed project. It is a nine story building of concrete and broken glass with a barbershop and variety store for its all Black residents. We visited another ward before ending a day that had begun at 6:15 in the morning...