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Profet's many admirers in academia quickly lauded the new theory. "She has a brilliant hypothesis and substantial evidence. I'm curious to see if it holds up," says Dr. Randolph Nesse, a psychiatry professor at the University of Michigan. "It's the only serious contender for a plausible evolutionary explanation of menstruation," declares George Williams, an editor at the Quarterly Review of Biology, which is published by the University of Chicago Press. "It is extremely unlikely that her theory is seriously wrong. Her arguments are quite convincing...
...title, Altman does not linger on any of his stories. Nobody is ever on long enough to grow tedious, and his linkages between stories (the screenwriters used color-coded file cards pinned to a bulletin board to keep them straight) are wonderfully inventive and set up very curious resonances. "I kind of wish it were shorter," says Altman, "but this is what it is. It's like having a kid who's seven feet tall. What do you do? You buy him a new bed and hope he can play basketball...
...blue Honda sedan was right behind it. The attendants were more alert than usual at that hour because the station had recently been robbed. But these customers wanted only gas. The Honda's driver, a tall, red-haired, freckled man, paid for both vehicles with a $50 bill. A curious attendant tried to peer into the van. The driver, a younger, wiry man with a full beard, suddenly hopped out and planted himself in front of a side window, blocking the view...
...true. And yet how curious. For Rosenthal wrote and signed the Beijing catalog essay too. Well, hey, Karl Marx used to say that capitalist culture harbored contradictions. But it took this English curator to bring them to the point of total cognitive dissonance: preening himself as the voice of American avant-gardes on one side of the world, slagging them off as "detritus" on the other...
...more egregious, and widely committed, offenses of sloganeering has been the overuse of derivatives of Reebok's "Life is Short...Play Hard." I've always thought the slogan a rather curious blend of epicurianism and stoicism. Reebok plays to the American propensity for play, but also to the remnants of our Protestant work ethic, reminding us that Life is Short, and so any playing must be done sedulously. Sweaty joggers and wellmuscled mountain-bikers parrot the line with fitter-than-thou reproachfulness...