Word: bee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...
...does a queen bee keep her colony together? In Nature, Dr. James Simpson of Rothamsted Experimental Station, England, reported that her influence is a scent more compelling than any compounded by French perfumers...
When a cluster of swarming bees is deprived of its queen, the bees soon desert to other bee colonies unless she returns. To find out why, Dr. Simpson imprisoned a queen in a wire-screen cage with double walls. He put the cage near a cluster of worried, queenless bees. The workers responded joyously. They swarmed all over the cage, vibrating their wings. But when Simpson imprisoned a queen in a small, transparent plastic bag, she had no effect on the other bees. They could see and hear her, but they ignored her completely...
...most difficult parts in the show is that of Vida Phillimore, the judge's ex-spouse. Unfortunately, Lynn Milgrin is not quite the woman for the job. She strives hard to be a vamp, a loose woman who attracts men to her chamber like a queen bee, but the effect is rarely alluring, and occasionally ludicrous. When attempting satire, however, Miss Milgrim is more at home, her eyes and hands doing as much as her voice to develop the situation. Her bedroom scene in the second act is particularly fine...
When parents tell their children about the birds and the bees, they leave out the information that the male bee always dies after making love. This is surely a touchstone metaphor for at least a part of mankind. Yet until now, it has not been put across with wide-angle clarity. It has remained...