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Then there's a flash of the old Dylan, lashing out against the cardboard people around him whom he refuses to recognize, whose lives he has to rearrange and give them all another name...
...decided he was against the profit system, and prepared to keep his belt on when his kids began to sprout their locks. Fifteen years later the neighbors still hate the guy, and especially when they see out-of-state license plates (the people who bring him Philip Roth books?) flash by on the way up to his house. Who knows what goes on up there? A man in the shack next door to the Sizemores killed himself and no one but the insects noticed for several days. This is a place that could use a little peer pressure...
...conniving femmes fat ales, Mata Hari and Delilah pale by comparison to female fireflies of the genus Photuris. Like other fireflies, these nocturnal, winged beetles send out short, rhythmic flashes of light as part of a special signal system that attracts males of the same species. The female Photuris practices a deadly variation of this ritual. It modifies its signal to mimic the flash pattern of different species of fireflies and thus lures unsuspecting males. Once they are in reach, the female devours them...
...wing emitting light signals. These varied in number, rate and duration from one species to another, as did the responses of the females perched on shrubbery below. Using a pocket flashlight, Lloyd learned to imitate the signals of various species. He soon discovered that when he gave the mating flash of a male Photinus, a female Photuris sometimes responded. When Lloyd switched signals, flashing the mating pattern of a different male species, the versatile female Photuris often began to mimic the proper response for the female of that species. In fact, a female can mimic the signals of at least...
...film has a warp in the story of young Vito Corleone and a woof in the story of his son Michael separated by about 30 years. Vito (Robert DeNiro) takes the first steps on the ascent from petty thief to capo di rutti capi in a series of flash-backs interspersed in the main action. Here, Michael (Al Pacino) has to deal with the legacy of his father--an extra-legal fiefdom doing business on a scale Exxon wouldn't sneeze at--and try to adapt it to changing times. If the film has anything to say about this...