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Soon thereafter, Levi Lyman, alias Dr. Griffin, checked into a hotel in Philadelphia on Barnum's payroll. After a few days he invited his landlord to inspect the mermaid. The landlord, greatly excited, urged the British doctor to let a few of his friends, including several reporters, have a look at it. And, as Barnum smugly notes in his autobiography, everyone was convinced that it was a genuine article, "nor is this to be wondered at, since, if it was a work of art, the monkey and fish were so nicely conjoined that no human eye could detect the point...
MARIA SPERANSKAYA gives a bleak recitation of war's reality. She is 86, a retired doctor in Nizhni Novgorod who served as a combat surgeon through the worst of the war. One of her duties was to inspect trainloads of newly arrived wounded. She decided which of them should be treated and which were so badly off that they must be left to die. "I was known," she says, "for my precision...
...Dole would introduce a bill that combines tougher penalties for terrorist acts in the United States with thepresident's proposals. Clinton said he would create an FBI-run center fordomestic counterterrorism. He also requested far more authority for federal agents to wiretap, trace phone calls, examine phone bills and inspect other consumer records in efforts to identify terrorist cells before they commit crimes...
...three characters share a preoccupation with light, electric and otherwise. Ward wields a gadget with blatant Freudian implications. It is a light bulb attached to a long rod and disk which he uses to inspect people and swings like an orchestra conductor. This rod is one of several futuristic props which look annoying awkward in the play's early 20th century setting. But the more Ward dangles and sways it, the more interesting it becomes. As the trail of the light bulb moves back and forth like a pendulum, it induces a trance which is bolstered by the constant whir...
...Prentiss's acting pulls us out of the moment, perhaps this is not such a bad thing--as the set and lighting are truly worth taking the time to inspect carefully. Allison Koturbash has created an extraordinary set design, using 8 television screens as her canvas, to do everything from running the Cybernectromantics program, to representing a telephone, to bombarding us with a series of flashing fluorescent images. John Ambrosone's lighting design compliments this perfectly, adding significantly to the stark and futuristic atmosphere...