Word: mcclintock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, The Heartaches of a French Cat (Godine; $14.95) features a mute cast of felines. Author and illustrator Barbara McClintock places her 19th century tale onstage, where everything is expressed through the dramatic pose and the pregnant paws. Minette is pursued by the rakish Count Bisquet and the worthy Lionel. In the end she spurns them both to write her scandalous memoir, which becomes an overnight success. If there is any justice, so will this comic biography...
...much good do the consultants do? "About half the time they muck it up," says John McClintock, a college adviser at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School. The best realize they are most effective working behind the scenes. Colleges do not appreciate phone calls from paid advocates. And gushing recommendations from hired imagemakers, scoffs Kevin Rooney, director of admissions at Notre Dame, "carry no weight...
...Jessica McClintock, another hot West Coast designer, has also tried to play off of traditional Spanish costumes. "The shapes are stronger but simpler," she says of her silhouettes, "not old-time Spanish with ruffles." Though Latin shapes and detailing are showing up in sportswear lines, McClintock suggests that the richness of Spanish fashion is best reserved for evening wear. "Women are now wearing things that make grand-entrance statements," she says...
Following four years of research, Jeffrey E. McClintock of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and MIT's Ronald A. Remillard told a meeting of the American Astronomical Society that they had identified a dark, massive object in the Constellation Monoceros as a probable black hole...
Optical observations of X-ray nova A0620-00 made by McClintock and Remillard show a binary system in which one member is a dwarf star and the other is a black hole, the closest yet found to the earth. During outburst, stellar material drawn from the star and falling into the gravitational field of the black hole produces more energy than 10,000 suns...