Word: curious
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...Says Duane Rumbaugh: "Apes have the capacity to use symbols that represent things not present in time and space-the essence of semantics, in human parlance." The chimps also have demonstrated self-awareness. One, while watching itself on a television monitor, directed a flashlight beam into its mouth, apparently curious about what its throat looked like...
There were more than enough rumors and full-blown theories last week to tantalize those who were curious about President Francois Mitterrand's motive in expelling Soviet officials from France. Perhaps the most intriguing hypothesis centered on the unsolved murder of a top French intelligence officer two months ago. One morning last...
Founded in the early 1970s, Sendero Luminoso claims as many as 1,000 members, most of them peasants and students from the mountains. Their eccentric ideology is mingled with a curious form of messianic tribalism. The Senderistas use Inca slingshots, for example, to fling dynamite sticks at targets. The guerrillas' atavistic tactics have evoked a similar response from the Andean villagers. When eight journalists were killed near Ayacucho in January, a government commission concluded that villagers had perpetrated the crime using Senderista methods. The bodies of the newsmen were carefully stripped, washed and turned face down, while their clothes...
...tadpoles in the swell of his celebrity. He, ah, played Stanford White in the movie Ragtime. He had something or other to do with Gary Gilmore. "I've read a lot about him, although I've never read his works," says Freshman Susan Bernfield. "I was curious...
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess has had a curious history. At its premiere in 1935, it received mixed notices and was thought by many to be a failure; yet now it is considered by some to be the great American opera. Blacks were initially offended by its implicit Uncle Tomism; Duke Ellington declared, "The times are here to debunk Gershwin's lampblack Negroisms." Yet black singers have sprung to prominence in its roles, among them Todd Duncan (the first Porgy), Leontyne Price and William Warfield (in a 1952 revival) and Clamma Dale (in the 1976 Houston Grand...