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...catches oneself tuning in to the tour guide’s statements as one rushes in and out of historic buildings. One always catches a useful tidbit or other. The statue of the three lies? Can do. The reason Memorial Hall looks like a cathedral? Ditto. Not only is one aware of Harry Elkins Widener’s whole sorry story, but also of the artist who painted the murals inside Widener Library (Sargent), of the reason the third, poignant condition Harry’s mother laid down for the construction of the library (all students must take a swim...
...just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival will be coming soon to a cineplex near you. Among the independent films that got big distribution deals: Garden State (a comedy, set in New Jersey), Napoleon Dynamite (ditto, set in Idaho) and Open Water (a couple pursued by sharks). Hollywood will be paying close attention. A surprising number of directors have gone from quirky little Sundance successes to big-budget Hollywood blockbusters...
...wears the pants in the family are a corny stand-up staple. Tell that to the sea horse. It is the male who becomes pregnant, blows up like a balloon and delivers the young. The male Darwin frog swallows fertilized eggs and broods the young in his mouth. Ditto for the Japanese cardinal fish. In fact, males of many species--fish and fowl--are in charge of child care...
...year. Others, particularly those associated with airbases, will be left in place. German officials meeting with their U.S. counterparts were relieved last month to learn that the Ramstein base in the town of Kaiserslautern ("K-Town" to G.I.s), the largest U.S. military community outside the U.S., will remain open. Ditto, probably, for bases at Spangdahlem and at Morón, Spain. Meanwhile, new troops will be deployed in so-called Forward Operating Bases, or fobs, in Eastern Europe. That move, says Grossman, is partly being carried out because nato is welcoming new members in the east. "You need to think...
...kids' birthday party at New York City's American Girl Place costs $30 a head. Ditto for a ticket to the doll retailer's in-store musicals. Twenty smackers will cover a new hairdo for your doll at the store's salon. But if you want to buy a doll, you'll have to shell out four times that. Despite such hefty prices, the three-story doll emporium that opened in midtown Manhattan last month is mobbed. So too is Chicago's five-year-old American Girl Place, which ranks as the Magnificent Mile's top-grossing store. Many...