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...women as sorceresses or passive, quasi-mechanical objects of desire. It is no surprise to learn of her enthusiasm for the films of Luis Bunuel -- or, given the yearning and farcical behavior of some of her later sculptures, for those of Buster Keaton. Keaton, Horn points out, "has to invent the apparatus to achieve what he wants, and becomes completely obsessed by his mad world of imaginary things...
...latest plutocrat is O'Brien, 30, whose new show -- he calls it Late Night with Question Mark -- is racing against the clock to invent itself. All right, sauntering against the clock. In Rockefeller Center, young creative types lounge about in pullovers and shorts. It might be downtime at the frat house; no one displays the panic expected of kids who must start, on Sept. 13, manufacturing five fresh hours of TV each week...
Humans didn't even invent effective action-at-a-distance weapons until a mere 40,000 or so years ago. Only with these new tools, like the bow and arrow and the spear thrower, could our ancestors begin to mimic the speed and sharpness of a big cat's claws. Even so, predator animals remained a major threat. As late as the 7th century B.C., a stela erected by the Assyrian King Assurbanipal recounts the ferocity of the lions and tigers after torrential rains had flushed them out of their lairs; the great King, of course, stamped out the beasts...
...take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough, "Kraft" can be translated from German as power. The clue fits; despite mighty imaginings, the admiring younger brother has been too deferential to invent a story...
...will not allow anti-choice zealots to deny RU 486 to American women," vows Pamela Maraldo, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The pro-life forces are no less determined. "When they invent new ways to kill children, we will invent new ways to save them," warns the Rev. Keith Tucci of Operation Rescue National. A coalition of antiabortion forces has scheduled a demonstration in front of the French embassy in Washington on June 18, just three days before Roussel Uclaf holds its annual meeting in Paris...