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Take for example "The Way Things Go," a 30 minute film of chain reactions which could only have been imagined by a crazy inventor with too much time on his hands and too much space in his garage. In one fantastically long domino-like progression, a bottle of water tips to fill a cup on a see-saw, which raises a candle that ignites an explosion, sending spirals of fire to fuel the next event in an apparently endless chain...
...quarter to five. At this time, a Scotch-Irish immigrant realized in a stroke of backwoods genius that the banjo, up until then a farming implement used to discipline unruly chickens, could also be used to produce a twangy tune. (Historians had agreed that if, at that moment, the inventor could have known that his new invention would eventually lead to the song "Achy Breaky Heart," he would have smashed his banjo and thrown himself into the river.) However, new evidence may show that the historical community has unfairly shut the Puritans out of their rightful place in country music...
Walker sees the play's interpretation of that experience as contemporary and relevant, and presents what she calls a "profound disillusionment with the values of the state," in a "narrow, legal and power-obsessed society." Dionysos, held in myth to be the inventor of theater, imposes on civic order a dancing, crowded and angry disorder that could sweep, perhaps, over Boston as readily as over Thebes...
...flurry of publicity surrounding this year's batch of Nobel prizes reminded the public of the infamous romantic story of Alfred Nobel's attempt to purify his legacy as the inventor of dynamite by establishing awards for contributions in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economics, literature and peace...
SOLD. SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever recovered, to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; at an auction in New York City. The winning bid of $8.4 million was financed partly by McDonald's and Disney. DIED. JEROME LEMELSON, 74, prolific inventor whose more than 500 patents include the bar-code scanning technology used by stores and factories around the world; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles. He spent years in legal battles with corporations over his patents, won millions in settlements, and used the money to endow a $500,000 annual prize for inventors...