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...That harbour," sighs an old wharfie in Katherine Thomson's new play for the Sydney Theatre Company. "She dances some days. Like she's trying to jump out of her skin." Indeed, no other Australian city seems to shed its skin - or grow a new one - as readily as Sydney. After all, it's the place where an historic wharf can turn into luxury apartments for the likes of Russell Crowe. And where an old bond store in former working-class Millers Point can transform into a chic theater for the middle classes - the new Sydney Theatre, where Thomson...
...said he will continue to grow the neckbeard through intersession...
...CHANGES Don't tell Nemo's dad, but if the female half of a pair of clown fish dies, the widower usually responds by turning into a female. In one species of marine worm, when two shes meet, the smaller becomes a he (but since males grow faster, they are likely to swap roles again). When too many male slipper limpets surround a female, the males change sex--then it's their turn...
...much more likely to be adept at pleasing each other, knowing where and how to arouse. Some sex counselors report that they see quite a bit of what anthropologist Margaret Mead called PMZ (post-menopausal zest). "Indeed, some women begin to have orgasms for the first time as they grow older," write Dr. Robert Butler and his wife, psychotherapist Myrna Lewis, in The New Love and Sex After 60 (Ballantine Books; 400 pages), the latest edition of their classic advice book...
...attitudes are changing. "To be bodily close again, to enjoy whatever the aging process allows, is one of the greatest blessings I know," a woman, 73, tells sex educator Eric Johnson. "Grow old along with me," the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to her new husband Robert Browning when she was 40, he was 34, and open expression of sexual desire was unheard of in polite society. "The best," she promised, "is yet to be." We're only beginning to learn how right she was. --With reporting by Kathie Klarreich/Miami and Wendy Malloy/Tampa