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Human beings are "accidental, unrepeatable, lucky-to-be-here side twigs on the glorious arboretum of life," said Gould, who is the Agassiz professor of zoology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology...
TULIP TIME '90, HOLLAND, MICH. This bud's for you. Tiptoe through eight miles of glorious blossoms at this annual Dutch jamboree that features 1,400 costumed klompen dancers, windmills, parades and literally millions of tulips...
...riveted when Moscow history teacher Andrei Isayev turned the tables on the Russian Revolution. Isayev first took down all the pictures of Lenin in his tenth-grade classroom. Then he told his students that the 1917 Revolution, which had been taught for decades as holy writ, was not so glorious as their government-issued textbooks had portrayed it. The students proved to be fast learners. "Lenin was a dark personality," one of Isayev's pupils says, when a Western visitor asks him about the founder of the modern Soviet state. He made "big mistakes" and caused "a catastrophe...
...from the story of a gallivanting rich boy who grew up to be the top writer-director in pictures. And one of the blithest. "All I do is wave a little wand a little," purred the orchestra conductor in Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours, "and out comes the music." For five glorious years, 1940-44, Sturges waved his wand and out came words and pictures. Nothing but Hollywood's most distinctive satires: The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. So rent the movies. Don't read the book...
...Space and Friday the 13th Part 3 have not improved with age. Imax Systems has installed a 3-D theater in Vancouver and has plans to build two more, in Galveston, Texas, and Taiwan, but there are no plans yet to put them in typical suburban malls. Moreover, as glorious as the new technology may seem today, it is likely to be perceived by an increasingly jaded public as just another gimmick. "People get used to things so fast," says Imax's Kroitor. "After a while they ask, 'Where...