Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Kellogg, whose father died when he was six. This would be an utterly ordinary thesis in most films, but the force of Brando's potrayal of the paternalistic Sabatini and Broderick's capable rendering of the All-American rural innocent provide The Freshman with convincing human impact. Just as The Godfather succeeds largely because it was able to make the family life of the murdering, lawbreaking Corleone family somehow seem real and touching, its parody The Freshman is able to rescue itself from the destruction of Bergman's intentions. And despite some directorial flaws, The Freshman is funny and entertaining...
...alternative, explained Busby, is to use avegetable protein matrix that mimicks the responseof the human cornea. Another alternative is totest cosmetics on processed human skin patches,currently available on the market. Both methodsare also much cheaper than the outdatedanimal-testing methods, Busby added...
...current issue of Microwave News, Slesin has printed what may be his greatest scoop: the key paragraph of a two-year Environmental Protection Agency study recommending that so-called extremely low-frequency fields be classified as "probable human carcinogens" alongside such notorious chemical toxins as PCBs, formaldehyde and dioxin. The recommendation, which could have set off a costly chain of regulatory actions, was deleted from the final draft after review by the White House Office of Policy Development. "The EPA thing is a stunner," says Paul Brodeur, a writer for the New Yorker. "It's a clear case of suppression...
...their refusal in 1981 to review a suit brought by lawyers for a 13-year-old girl who, during a sweep to detect drugs, had been humiliatingly sniffed by police dogs in her classroom, then strip-searched. He denounced the action as "a violation of any known principle of human decency...
...burnished glow of the cinematography imparts a portentous, not to say pretentious, air to the halls of justice where much of the film's most significant action occurs. The scruffy atmosphere of the book, the sense of lively, crooked, occasionally desperate human scurryings along marbled halls that have not been cleaned in years, and are probably lined by spittoons, is lost in the film's elegant shadows...