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...several of the scenes in which he does not figure, Moriarty remains quietly on stage left, observing the game as it is played out. But there are times when Richard should convey a demanic drive, should impress us with a larger-than-life size. Instead, we have a chap who becomes nauseated on seeing Hastings' severed head; who, on speaking the famous line, "Off with his head--so much for Buckingham" (written not by Shakespeare but harmlessly interpolated by Cibber in 1700), underlines the second half by kicking an imaginary rugby ball...
...Snow: 1905-1980 "I'm a fairly clever chap and can put my hand to things," C.P. Snow liked to say. The self-appraisal was a classic of good British understatement. Snow put his hand to a stunning variety of things. He was a novelist, essayist, biographer, physicist, playwright, civil servant, company director, government official. Member of Parliament, teacher and public lecturer. His death last week at age 74 brought to an end not one life but many...
...time it seems that Sybylla will indeed submit, though not before a wild fox chase. She makes life miserable for an unsuitable suitor (so identified because his hair is parted in the middle), and is even harder on the suitable chap, Harry Beecham (Sam Neill), who is solemn, good-looking and earnest. But when she prankishly overturns a boat in which they are punting, soaking them both in their decorous, neck-to-ankle costumes, it can be assumed that she likes him. When he proposes, it is hard for her not to accept...
...delta brain waves-or just a snooze. The experience might be called the caviar of self-indulgence. Float tanks, as they are called, originated on the West Coast. The idea behind them was developed in the 1950s by Neurophysiologist John C. Lilly, who is most widely known as the chap who communicates with dolphins. The original Isolation Tank Method, as he baptized it, was an experiment in self-exploration conducted for the National Institute of Mental Health. With, he says, an occasional assist from LSD, Dr. Lilly found that through solitary immersion in skin-temperature salt water-containing MgSO4 7H2O...
Donovan's love of ingenuity was infectious. William Duff, a retired book publisher who was sent to Algiers to recruit agents for spying in France, recalls one example: "We had a chap in Cairo who designed a land mine that looked remarkably like a camel turd. He put it in the diplomatic pouch and sent it to London. I'm not sure they knew quite what to make of it." Thibaut de Saint Phalle, now a director of the Export-Import Bank, discovered that Chinese pirates were very adept at blowing up Japanese ships, and he went...