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...MANY, DANCE CAN BE an intimidating, highbrow art form, but five-time Tony Award-winning choreographer Michael Kidd (above left) insisted that every move be "completely understandable." Kidd's philosophy of grounding dance in reality--he called it "human behavior, stylized into musical rhythmic forms"--propelled some of Broadway's and Hollywood's most memorable sequences. Among them: the barn-raising dance in the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse's heavenly romp through Central Park in The Band Wagon and the dynamic sequences for the original stage production of Guys and Dolls. Kidd...
Cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl's book reports on homosexual couplings among animals [BEHAVIOR, April 26], but for anyone to use the example of male giraffes rubbing each other as justification for homosexuality in humans is ludicrous. There are species of crocodiles in which adults frequently eat the young. Should we then declare this type of animal behavior acceptable grounds for human infanticide? DAVID JENKINS Clifton...
...between Tatiana's attacks on the men at the San Francisco Zoo was relatively brief, so the word "grudge," which implies ill will that persists over time, may not be appropriate in this situation. Perhaps Tatiana's behavior would more accurately be described as a crime of passion - no grudge necessary. Still, could years of captivity have led to harbored resentment against humans, and her eventual attack...
Tatiana, a zoo tiger, was not acting under "natural" conditions, Bradshaw points out, and the animal's physical and social limitations ought to be taken into account when examining her violent behavior. This is not to say the tiger might not have attacked had she been in the wild, but Bradshaw says her history of captivity can't be ignored. Like the elephants in Africa, she might have been striking back...
Challenge #4: "He's so embarrassing!" It's common for siblings to feel embarrassed by their autistic brother or sister's behavior in public, or to be reluctant to bring their friends home. Kelly Reynolds, 21, says it can be difficult introducing her autistic brother, Will, to her friends: "It's hard to have a young child in an older kid's body. [Will] may go up to one of my girlfriends and sit on her on the couch - which probably would have been cute when he was five years old but he's 17 now," Reynolds says. "That...