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...Peter Weller, who was the neurosurgeon-nuclear physicistrock star hero of Bucakroo Banzai, plays Murphy, an average police grunt in 1990s Detroit. After a gang of cop-killers wastes him, Murphy is brought to a laboratory where an ambitious yuppie brings him back to life...
...city in the near nightmare future. One exec (Ronny Cox) has devised a robot, ED 209, to patrol the streets, but ED is too slow in the brain and too fatally quick on the draw. So another schemer (Miguel Ferrer) assembles the spare parts of a mangled policeman (Peter Weller), fuses them with some state-of-the-art plumbing and creates a bionic bobby. For a while, RoboCop works much better. Can't be trusted, though. Has feelings and, maybe, a mind...
...performances match the tone. Cox and Ferrer are two sides of the same counterfeit corporate coin, and Kurtwood Smith (the most prominent punk) is one baaad malefactor. Weller, as the one good gunslinger in town, manages to convey emotion through the merest slit in his helmet. But the film is less an actors' showcase than a smart, grim satire. The only TV program to be seen is a slapstick variety show. Commercials peddle the 6000 SUX, the car of the future that brags about getting only 8.2 m.p.g., and a holocaust home-video game called Nukem. Giggly anchors read news...
...Seattle in 1901 as a retail shoe store by a Swedish prospector, John Nordstrom, who had struck it rich in the Klondike. Now a publicly traded concern, the firm is still closely controlled by members of the founder's family and propelled by their hands-on style. Says Edward Weller, a senior analyst in the San Francisco office of the Montgomery Securities investment firm: "Nordstrom's movitates people, not just by paying them well but by congratulating them and encouraging them...
...Harvard professors who have won or shared Nobel Prizes: T.W. Richards1914 Chemistry George R. Minot 1934 Medicine William P. Murphy 1934 Medicine Percy W. Bridgman 1946 Physics Edward M. Purcell 1952 Physics Fritz A. Lipmann 1953 Medicine John F. Enders 1954 Medicine Frederick C. Robbins 1954 Medicine Thomas H. Weller 1954 Medicine Georg von Bekesy 1961 Medicine James D. Watson 1962 Medicine Konrad E. Bloch 1964 Medicine Julian S. Schwinger 1965 Physics Robert Burns Woodward 1965 Chemistry George Wald 1967 Medicine Simon S. Kuznets 1971 Economics Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics Wassily W. Leontief 1973 Economics William N. Lipscomb...