Word: leggedness
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East Germany's Defense Minister announced that his country's soldiers will no longer march the goose step -- the swinging, stiff-legged gait that originated in Prussia and later became a feared and hated trademark of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
Not all artificial life-forms are confined to a computer screen. At M.I.T.'s mobile robot lab (also known as the "artificial insect lab"), Rodney Brooks is building tiny six-legged creatures that are controlled by interconnected computer chips and that display behavior (scurrying for cover, stalking prey) that seems...
FURTHER MO'. In this sprightly off-Broadway sequel to One Mo' Time, written and directed by Vernel Bagneris, long-legged, loose-jointed Papa Du (Bagneris) leads his squabbling trio of red-hot mamas through a re-creation of black vaudeville in the 1920s. Sandra Reaves-Phillips is a standout as...
Few loggers or environmentalists have ever seen the elusive spotted owl. They know it as either a costly subject of litigation or a rare distillation of the forest spirit. But on the summit of a steep ravine in Douglas County, a pair of spotted owls assert themselves, as if to...
And the small cast responds superbly. Zelman's earnest, whole-heartedness never falters. He, in stiff-legged seaman awkwardness, is always believable, always endearing. He straightforwardly delivers lines like, "We could not be closer to the sea without drowning in it," unaware of their humor. His coastal Irish accent is...