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...park’s founder, John Hammond, shares ice cream with paleobotanist Ellie Satler. In the play’s version of the scene, Satler (Rose Chase)—who has fluctuated from timid to nymphomaniacal to bloodthirsty—devoured a tub of ice cream with her bare hands. Hammond (Ed Schrader), a frequent fourth-wall breaker who had just finished an extended Bob Hope routine, came up from behind and tried to snuggle with her as he talked. “I just want to make sure you can hear me,” he explained...
...that had been spurred by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Since then, the department has been home to a number of leading intellectuals, such as Henry Louis Gate, Jr. and Cornel R. West. But over the past ten years the Af-Am faculty shrunk to bare bones after University President Laurence H. Summer’s contentious tenure spurred the departure of five prominent scholars...
...repair fire engines and other faulty equipment has never materialized. Meanwhile, the estimated 100 or so firemen are really police officers. "It's a non-number," says a former government security administrator. "They should be getting special training, but they don't." The so-called firemen dug with their bare hands through the concrete rubble of the school to look for and free trapped victims...
...curbside care is simple: you pull up, read about the risks and sign a consent form, then bare your bicep and get a shot--all without leaving the driver's seat. In October in Lynchburg, Va., the Central Virginia Health District's first drive-by clinic served 300 patients in 3 1/2 hours. That's less than 45 seconds per vaccination (and no time cooped up in a room with possible germ spreaders...
...vain, and he doesn't have exaggerated ideas about his abilities as a thespian. He cheerfully cops to having been the most lightweight of Bonds. He presents himself as a cheerfully overgrown boy blessed with astounding leading-man looks, a greater-than-average air of aplomb, the bare minimum of dramatic talent and no intellectual gifts or hidden depths to speak of. His greatest joys in life are his children, eating, drinking, getting married to diverse women and laughing at his own or other people's farts...