Word: herds
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Despite this dark and weighty air, however, moments of great openness and flexible acceptance wriggle through. Vera’s husband (Richard Graham) shines in his unquestioning support of his wife, and her son (Daniel Mays) comes around at his urging, learning to separate his family from the herd and not to condemn his mother like the masses...
...downside to all this is that often religious groups gather not into congregations but into camps--and sometimes they're armed camps. In a culture of Crusades, Holocausts and jihads, where in the world is the survival advantage of religious wars or terrorism? One facile explanation has always been herd culling--an adaptive way of keeping populations down so that resources aren't depleted. But there's little evolutionary upside to wiping out an entire population of breeding-age males, as countries trying to recover from wars repeatedly learn. Why then do we so often let the sweetness of religion...
...scientists who questioned its reliability and was boon to radio comedians who found that Kinsey's name had become and acceptable synonym for sex. One spinster snapped back at Kinsey that his elaborate study only confirmed what she had known all along--that "the male population is a herd of prancing, leering goats." More serious critics took issue with the Kinsey method itself, and many of the [methodological] faults found with the male report also apply to the female...
...devise techniques to slow or reverse the process. He concedes that roughly 600 pink-footed goose nests will be lost, but says that the number represents just 1.5% of such nests in Iceland; the birds are not a threatened species. Arnalds also acknowledges that part of the herd of calving and spring-grazing reindeer may be affected - but the animals could well adapt to the change. Apart from environmental damage, Sigfússon believes Iceland's image is suffering as a result of the Alcoa smelter and the Kárahnjúkar power projects. "We are putting ourselves...
...Sondheim has added six new songs for Lane?s expanded version (mostly filler, including a love song that Dionysos sings to his dead wife Ariadne), this is minor Sondheim - and even minor Nathan Lane. He?s as commanding as ever on stage, with a voice that can rally a herd of elephants, but seems oddly muted here, perhaps to suit his sober theme. The cast around him works hard, including pros like Roger Bart (who replaced Saturday Night Live?s Chris Kattan at the last minute) and comic John Byner (slyly underplaying as Charon, the wisecracking pilot of the boat...