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Dissected Love Affair. Professor Tinbergen observed this byplay; then he took it apart. First he proved that the male would attack as a rival a crude dummy fish with a red belly like his own. Professor Tinbergen then made a dummy with a swollen abdomen. This released a chain of mating reactions in the eager male, which tried to entice the dummy into his waiting nest...
...Slow Past. Television is imperfect and crude, compared with what it will be, but it is a modern miracle. The process of sending electronic pictures through the air and reassembling them in the living room is one of the great achievements of modern science. It all began in 1873 with a sharp-eared Irishman and a leprechaun sunbeam...
...called it "that beautiful, harshly treated play . . ." The producer of Guy Domville was sanguine, though James, with his usual misgivings stayed away opening night. Instead, he went to the Haymarket and saw Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, which had just opened. James considered Wilde's play crude, bad, clumsy, feeble, vulgar-but it appeared to be a complete success-"and that gave me the most fearful apprehension...
These women, a young one and an old one, keep alive by displaying to visitors who look as if they would pay for the privilege a letter from George Gordon, Lord B. The play shows a crude Matron from Milwaukee and her setted husband enjoying, but not paying for, the privilege. The play ends on a flat and irrelevant imputation that the younger lady is none other than Lord Byron's granddaughter...
Itabira is the name popularly given to Caué, and for two centuries its wealth has been a legend. Early colonists melted its ore into blunderbusses, horseshoes and crude plowshares. International bankers gambled with the concession during the early 1900s. But it was World War II that set shovels biting into Itabira's crown...