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...with the capabilities of the Bevatron. Biophysicists, for example, are optimistic about using heavy ions, or other particles that can be made from these ions, to combat cancer, acromegaly (a rare disease in which facial features, hands and feet thicken) and Parkinson's disease. Unlike X rays and gamma rays, heavy particles do not damage healthy tissue on their way to a tumor; they do most of their deadly work only after reaching it. (Before the modification of the Bevatron, heavy ions could not be accelerated enough even to penetrate the skin.) In addition, scientists may some day create...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS (478). Cremation is not confined to the dead. There are families in which people burn each other to a crisp daily, and dance with desolate glee in the ashes. This is a masterly play about such a family. As the mother, Carolyn Coates is laceratingly cruel and pitiably vulnerable...
Zindel won the Pulitzer for his off-Broadway play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, wh:ch exemplifies perfectly the editor's admonition to young writers: "Write what you know." The play's three leading characters are a bitter, nearly mad mother and her two tormented daughters; its plot concerns a science-class experiment with radiation on marigolds by one of the daughters. The underlying concept occurred to Zindel while he was preparing a class lecture. "I remember thinking that all carbon atoms on earth had to come from the sun," he says...
...Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marlgolds," at the New Theatre, Cambridge, through...
...work in question is Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and it is nothing more or less than the story of a domineering woman and her smothered loved ones. This play could probably not exist were it not for the dramatic tradition that has in the past given us The Glass Menagerie. The Little Foxes, Gyp??y, and the entire career of Edward Albee. And yet Marigolds is so sharp, so disturbing, and. yes, so slick that you can almost forget that it operates within same of the most overworked theatrical territory...