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With the talk of Bok's departure, there are also rumors of successors. Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, who stepped down June 30 as dean of the Faculty, is considered a top contender by one New York-based education writer...
...duel while composing a poem, the balcony scene in which the shy cavalier ventriloquizes his love for Roxane (Sinead Cusack) through the voice of his friend Christian (Tom Mannion), and Cyrano's lingering death-Hands does go full throttle. So does the star, Derek Jacobi, in the rising-geyser cadences that just about every serious English actor of the past 20 years has borrowed from Laurence Olivier. In his best roles Jacobi finds heroism in gray ordinariness: the stammering honesty of Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace and pain beneath the raillery in Much...
...famed geyser misses...
After years of living up to its name, Old Faithful no longer is. For the past century, the famed Yellowstone geyser in Wyoming spouted just about every 70 minutes, shooting a stream of boiling water and steam some 130 ft. into the air for two to four minutes. Now, when eruption time arrives, the geyser sometimes burps and spits for 20 or even 40 minutes. Eventually, Old Faithful blows, but on its own fickle time...
...geyser's credibility gap is caused by an earthquake that shook the nearby city of Challis, Idaho, and the surrounding northern Rockies last October. The tremors interrupted the underground-waterstreams that feed the geyser from mysterious sources and diverted them into new channels. Visitors to Yellowstone Park are not entirely blameless either: over the past six months, the geyser has spewed up coins, bottles, a door hinge, part of a metal clipboard and random fragments of oak furniture...