Word: mathewson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christy Mathewson...
...barrage of criticism has had its effect on big-time treasure hunters; even Fisher now includes archaeologists in his crew. At the Atocha site, Archaeologist Duncan Mathewson is carefully noting the position of each artifact and labeling each find. He has marked the site with grids, using yellow tape and pipes, and pinpointed each piece of the ancient hull...
...film's charm lies in the fact that Paul's bomb begins ticking suspensefully not for any vast didactic reasons, but because everyone associated with it behaves in recognizably human fashion. Paul, for example, started to tinker with fissionable material down in the basement because a physicist named John Mathewson (played by John Lithgow in his best slow-burn style) is intent on tinkering with Paul's newly separated mom (Jill Eikenberry). This does not send the boy into an Oedipal frenzy, but it makes him wary when John invites him to his lab to play with a laser...
...very broad mop to the drips, insisting that the idealists are terrorists, thus gaining an informal license to kill. Yet even here Brickman cannot resist his best impulses; he makes his villain (the subtle John Mahoney) more a man befuddled under pressure than evil incarnate. And he permits Mathewson to evolve from absentminded professor into a hero who is morally all present and accounted...
THIS SORT of inconsistency is the only major drawback of Things Invisible to See, but it is a big one. It is, essentially, a love story, but a novel that starts off with the Lord of the Universe and His archangels playing hall, and winds up with Mathewson on the mound and Lou Gehrig playing first, seems to call for a lot more baseball than Willard has seen fit to include. She certainly touches on an awful lot of other things, and perhaps it is because she does tackle so much that the leisurely. Saturday-afternoon-pickup...