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...rock rhythms, funky chords and uptempo bustling. Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves along with grace...
...often surprisingly modern," observes Claus Virch, the Met's curator of European painting. "There is an expressiveness to them not found in the fresco." In some cases, a comparison of the sinopia with the fresco has revealed surprising differences. The sinopia beneath Andrea del Castagno's muscular St. Jerome [on this page and opposite] is no more like the finished fresco than the youthful Dorian Gray was like his aging portrait. The sinopia shows a handsome young man; the fresco, a gnarled and suffering ascetic. The difference is so striking that Princeton's Renaissance scholar Millard Meiss...
Equipped with auxiliary breathing or gans,* the 2-ft. fish can live out of water for hours and can propel itself along the ground on its stubby but muscular pectoral fins. It was introduced by a fish farmer several years ago near Fort Lauderdale, and quickly infiltrated the state's broad, interconnected drainage system. When scattered specimens began appearing in the canals and ponds of Palm Beach County in 1967, they were largely ignored. But this spring, astounded Fort Lauderdale residents discovered catfish scuttling across their lawns at night and the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission assigned...
...Absence of reflexes. The dilated pupils must not contract when a bright light is shone directly into them. There must be no eye movements in response to pouring ice water into the ears, no muscular contractions after hammer-tapping the tendons of the biceps, triceps or quadriceps...
...Absence of all spontaneous muscular movements, notably breathing. If the patient is on a mechanical respirator, this may be turned off for three minutes in order to establish that he is incapable of breathing for himself...