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...ACTRESS ON TV SHUNS MAKEUP MORE defiantly than Helen Mirren. As London's detective chief inspector Jane Tennison, she wears every sag and wrinkle as if it were a combat medal. In Prime Suspect, last year's smashing PBS mini-series imported from Granada TV, Tennison struggled to prove her investigative mettle to male-chauvinist colleagues. That battle largely won, PRIME SUSPECT 2 (debuting Feb. 11 for four weeks) loses some of its feminist urgency. Here she investigates the murder of a black girl in a racially tense neighborhood and tries to keep her professional cool when a black detective...
...dangerous -- time handling a child while foraging for food. "If a woman was carrying the equivalent of a 20-lb. bowling ball in one arm and a pile of sticks in the other, it was ecologically critical to pair up with a mate to rear the young," explains anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love...
Some scientists are not startled by this contention. One of them is anthropologist Helen Fisher, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History and the author of Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery and Divorce, a recent book that is making waves among scientists and the general reading public. Says Fisher: "I've never not thought that love was a very primitive, basic human emotion, as basic as fear, anger or joy. It is so evident. I guess anthropologists have just been busy doing other things...
...predisposition to love, as more and more scientists are coming to believe, what follows is a recognition of the amazing diversity in the ways humans have chosen to express the feeling. The cartoon images of cavemen bopping cavewomen over the head and dragging them home by their hair? Love. Helen of Troy, subjecting her adopted city to 10 years of ruinous siege? Love. Romeo and Juliet? Ditto. Joe in Accounting making a fool of himself around the water cooler over Susan in Sales? Love. Like the , universe, the more we learn about love, the more preposterous and mysterious...
...University Professor Helen H. Vendler praised Brodhead's "remarkable sanity and perceptiveness" as well as his "even temper and high intelligence...