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...areas of science are as littered with intellectual rubbish as the study of innate mental differences between the sexes. In the 19th century, biologists held that a woman's brain was too small for intellect but large enough for household chores. When the tiny-brain theory bit the dust (elephants, after all, have bigger brains than men), scientists began a long, fruitless attempt to locate the biological basis of male superiority in various brain lobes and chromosomes. By the 1960s sociobiologists were asserting that natural selection, operating throughout the long human prehistory of hunting and gathering, had predisposed males...
...error in a town census report lists the first grader as an 87-year-old student. Somehow, her birth date was marked as 1904 instead of 1984, and she was recorded as head of the household...
Children, especially girls, are stuck on stickers. That's why Lisa Frank Inc. is hot. Founded in 1979, the firm is a household name among the younger set for making Day-Glo stickers as well as notebooks, pencils and stationery. The company expects to sell 20 million items this year, including 3.5 million stickers, doubling last year's sales...
...guillotined during the Revolution. Another ghost is Beaumarchais himself, who has been in love with the queen for 200 spectral years. But she yearns only to live again. To amuse the ghosts and court the queen, Beaumarchais stages a Figaro opera-within-the-opera. The intrigues of the Almaviva household have changed little since Mozart's time. Both the count and countess have illegitimate children. Figaro is still the wily meddler, but his affection for practical Susanna remains firm...
With an emotional resonance rare in movies and a pleasing score by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, Beauty and the Beast gets the comic leavening it needs from a nice modification of the Seven Dwarfs. The prince's household staff, who labor under the same curse, have been changed into candlesticks (Jerry Orbach), teapots (Angela Lansbury), clocks (David Ogden Stiers) and armoires (Jo Anne Worley). In the Be Our Guest number, watch closely for the swimming spoons, the dishes stacked in Eiffel Tower formation, the tankards in chorale. The voluptuousness of visual detail offers proof, if any more were needed...