Word: waterston
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...Because the chimp is so close, its physiology is remarkably similar, so that provides us with a way of looking at ourselves in a different context,” said Robert H. Waterston, chair of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, who worked on the project. “And more importantly, in places where the chimp differs from humans in physiology and response to disease, we can use genetic differences to figure out what is going...
...example, chimpanzees contract HIV, but unlike humans, they do not develop full-blown AIDS, Waterston said. Further studies of the genome could explain why they do not experience the same symptoms...
...Broadway by the same director, Michael Blakemore, with a new and mostly American cast. It builds slowly into a brilliant exposition of the troubled relationship between the elite and the masses, both in the broad public arena and in the narrow but fierce politics of the hearth. Sam Waterston portrays a young London architect who gets his big break, a commission to design public housing. Mindful that semidetached cottages are what blue-collar Britons prefer, he nonetheless opts for massive towers as the only practicable response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn Close plays his wife, gradually torn...
...walled-in housing proposal as a variation of a college, turning its back on the rest of the world. Hurt's performance in the role, tinged equally with self-pity and pluck, is the production's strongest. Close impeccably portrays a woman whose compassion leads her into ruinous contradictions. Waterston disappoints a bit, wobbling in his accent and never quite finding the passion, only the hysteria, of his man. Jones' smirky hauteur is chilling as his destructive tactics succeed. Both the architect and his nemesis contend that nothing ever changes, and Frayn finds lyric beauty and an odd moral equality...
Critics who saw both have generally preferred the London production, but Frayn seems to favor the Broadway rendition, starring Sam Waterston as the architect and Glenn Close as his wife. "This version brings out more strongly the feelings and relationships of the characters," Frayn notes, "and also the narrative. That has something to do with the audience. Americans seem much more amused by the twists and turns of the plot." This emphasis on emotion marks a deliberate departure from Frayn's customarily wry, bemused tone. He explains, "All humorous writing is detached. What makes it comic is a refusal...