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While the acting is consistently good, it is the stunning performances of Alexis Toomer, Emily Hsu and Rachel Skiffer as the doowapping narrators Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon that make Little Shop such a success. In their dynamic "Skid Row" number in the first act the trio perfectly evokes the ambience of the downtown slum where Little Shop takes place. "Downtown, that's your home address, downtown, where your life's a mess, down on skid row..." they sing while leading a group of bums in a dance number straight out of the Apollo...
...ARGUMENTS FOR building the multibillion-dollar space station Freedom is that it would provide a zero-gravity laboratory to grow bigger and purer protein and silicon crystals. But increasingly there is a question as to whether the crystal-growing techniques, at least for proteins, are all that reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts, scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already orbiting Russian space station...
...BOTTOM LINE: A monumental portrait of one of the giants of modern science, at once definitive and crystal clear...
Relying in part on sources never before made available to the public, Gleick explains with crystal clarity the paradoxes of quantum physics -- a subject that Feynman himself said nobody understands -- just as he laid bare the arcana of higher mathematics in his 1987 best seller, Chaos. Gleick also uncovers some of the forces that created a man who could devotedly nurse his first wife as she lay dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium a few miles from the wartime Manhattan Project, where he worked, yet later in life could make a sport out of picking women up in bars...
...electronically incorrect," says Kathy Harrison of Raleigh, North Carolina, who got a VCR for her birthday four years ago and hasn't taped a show yet. "I don't like appliances." Or it may be merely another case of American don't-know-how. In City Slickers, Billy Crystal spends much of one day on the trail fruitlessly trying to explain to Daniel Stern how to tape one show while watching another. "He'll never get it!" cries their partner, Bruno Kirby. "It's been four hours. The cows can tape something by now." Yes, and those moo-activated VCRs...