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...transmit rabies without biting, the Public Health Service assigned Dr. Denny Constantine, 36, a lifelong student of bats, and a crew of hardy assistants to the ugly and dangerous job of checking further. Researcher Constantine is not easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their floors are deep in stinking guano and littered with...
...would be unready to admit that flight. For most, Bogey flicks will happily remain as opportunities to relish vicariously the succession of unachieved sexual encounters of Marlowe/Spade/Bogart or to laugh at the thick ankles popular in a heftier age. For any who are made uncomfortable by the realities that crawl slightly under the surface of most Bogey pictures (the frightening and disgusting homosexual misogynism of Capote's Beat the Devil, for example) there are hundreds, one fears thousands, who percieve only the reasonable superficial escapist qualities of all movies herein, performed delightedly and genially by Bogart, Bacall, the Houstons, Elisha...
Sneeze in the Dark. His daily life provides plenty of material-like the story about the time his dog sled plunged through a hole in the Yukon ice. "It was bottomless," he recalls as he waves his elbows to show how he tried again and again to crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began...
...completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev. As he had promised, he did weave a number of tuneful folk motifs...
...local schools, colleges, and universities, only Harvard remained open. With traffic slowed to a crawl, Boston authorities sent out their full task force of more than 150 snowplows. The MTA cancelled all surface feeder lines, maintaining only the subway operations...