Word: dava
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Technology also demands that time be measured ever more precisely. An accurate mechanical clock proved to be so valuable to the British maritime industry in the eighteenth century that the government awarded a hefty prize to its inventor, Joseph Harrison (a story elegantly told in Dava Sobel's 1995 best seller Longitude...
...final months of the year (the century!, the millennium!) bring us Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter (Walker; 418 pages; $27) and Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune (HarperCollins; 432 pages; $26). Each in its way projects a feminist point of view. More strikingly, both are about revolutions, one scientific, the other cultural...
...Ellen Morgan really gay all along, before not only the character knew it but DeGeneres and the writers as well? According to Dava Savel, one of Ellen's three executive producers, sparks often flew between DeGeneres and female guests. She cites in particular an episode with Janeane Garafalo. "There wasn't supposed to be a lesbian thing at all, but afterward we were watching the tape and we were like, 'Whoa...
...Ellen Morgan is still in a very heterosexual situation," insists Dava Savel. "Almost all her friends are heterosexuals. If one of the other characters has a guy that they're interested in, she's the first to say, 'Omigod, he's hot.' It's just not going to be an option for Ellen to date him." Not that lesbians shouldn't appreciate male beauty, but this does smack a bit of the we're-doing-it-but-we're-not-doing-it attitude with which television often ends up approaching taboos, which might best be exemplified by the first interracial...