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...Throughout her career Riley has used her famous optical illusions to make the viewer see things that aren't there. "It's not just to do with what's on the surface but what's inside your head," says Moorhouse. One of her earliest black-and-white works is White Discs 2 (1964) - an arrangement of black spots on a white ground. Look at it, though, and you begin to see flickering white spots - the afterimages of the black areas. Some of the early works, like the field of triangles Tremor (1962), seem to exist in three dimensions - to reside...
...Berhane Asfaw of Ethiopia's Rift Valley Research Service found a third, the skull of a 6-or 7-year-old child, shattered into about 200 pieces. After years of painstaking cleaning, reassembly and study, the team was confident enough to tell the world that it had found the earliest true Homo sapiens--older by at least 1,000 generations than anything previously discovered. "It's not a modern human," says White, "but it's so close that there's no doubt it will become one. The child, in particular, is so like us that you couldn't distinguish...
Perhaps the most intriguing discovery, however, is that these ancestors behaved like us in at least one poignant way: all three skulls were deliberately tampered with after death, evidently as part of some sort of mortuary practice. "This," says White, "is the earliest evidence of hominids continuing to handle skulls long after the individual died...
...Tregomain puts it, this very sophisticated film is "taking cinema back to the earliest moments as a science, when the image being filmed was less tricky than how the camera was going to capture it." There's a purity in this effort. It's enough to give the serious moviegoer heart in this impure season. --By Richard Schickel. Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris
Before each day’s races, he spent hours pouring over the columns of small print showing how each horse had done in its previous outings. In the earliest days of personal computers, he crunched this “past performance” data...