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...babies look at models of the two kinds of nipples. The result, says Meltzoff, was that "they would look at the ones they had felt." Now, with Speech Professor Patricia Kuhl, he has extended those tests to language. The researchers showed infants two films of faces saying "ahh" and "eee," then placed between the two pictures a loudspeaker that could make either sound. The babies invariably looked toward the picture that fit the sound. "This means that babies can detect the relationship between mouth movements and the sounds they hear," says Meltzoff. "Essentially, babies are lip readers...
...unlikely song to be sung in the present age of practicality. Women are not about to let themselves be whisked off to points unknown in this heyday of equal rights, and the great romantics who might have enacted such scenes seem to have gone down with The African Queen. Ahh, well...
...Belmont (1½ miles). Not Johnny Campo. He has no doubt that Pleasant Colony will become history's twelfth Triple Crown winner. The rapid-fire, near-shout Noo Yawk accent softens only when he speaks of his colt: "He really is a good horse, this horse. Ahh, such a good horse...
Show me that Shaun Cassidy has some real talent or sex appeal and then I'll ooh and ahh like all the rest. Until then, I won't hold my breath...
...Here's something rare and extremely hard to find," continues Joe, as he shows four Beatle dolls with hair--with hair! "They all resemble The Beatles, except for John who looks like Peter Sellers." The crowd ooh's and ahh's. At five dollars per Beatle, it's quite a bargain...