Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway baptism of Brent Carver, one of Canada's leading actors for a decade. As a fey, movie-obsessed interior decorator imprisoned for homosexuality, Carver far surpasses the cinematic performance of the role that won William Hurt a 1985 Oscar. In the less rewarding part of a revolutionary cell mate, Anthony Crivello acts with bluff intensity and sings with beauty and power. The men's cramped quarters and surrounding tiers of cagelike squalor become a park, a movie palace, a Russian alley, even a vast, symbolic spiderweb through inspired film projections by set designer Jerome Sirlin, making a dazzling Broadway...
What should a lioness searching for a mate look for? If she wants a partner with robust genes, she might do well to check out the pattern of whisker spots on her suitor's face. So say a pair of University of Minnesota researchers in a report in the journal Nature. After examining whisker patterns on 920 lions, they concluded that males whose black dots in the topmost row of whiskers line up evenly tended to have longer lives than lions whose spots are arranged in a more irregular fashion...
...grand competition for Diana's hand begins--much to the dismay of the princess, who wants to find a mate on her own. Who cares about big palaces and yachts if your husband is a terrible bore...
...help explain (at least to scientists) the feelings of passion and compassion, but why do people tend to fall in love with one partner rather than a myriad of others? Once again, it's partly a function of evolution and biology. "Men are looking for maximal fertility in a mate," says Loyola Marymount's Mills. "That is in large part why females in the prime childbearing ages of 17 to 28 are so desirable." Men can size up youth and vitality in a glance, and studies indeed show that men fall in love quite rapidly. Women tumble more slowly...
...definitively on the instruments; it leaves a blurred fingerprint that could be mistaken for anything from indigestion to a manic attack. Anger and fear have direct roles -- fighting or running -- in the survival of the species. Since it is possible (a cynic would say commonplace) for humans to mate and reproduce without ) love, all the attendant sighing and swooning and sonnet writing have struck many pragmatic investigators as beside the evolutionary point...