Word: nonspecialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interested in either drawings or bodies. All the same, it is not the easiest of shows. Its predecessor, the Met's 1981 exhibition of his studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus or the epigastric veins of the abdomen. Nevertheless, anything by Leonardo, especially a group of studies as important in his work as this, is bound to be an object of fascination...
...gators in the farm's breeder lake rarely seem to mind his intrusion; and after three years of cataloguing by computer some 800 courtship sequences and isolating about 40 specific behavioral acts, Vliet has come to have more sympathy for the creatures. If it is difficult for a nonspecialist to tell male gators from females, it can apparently be hard for the gators too. To examine prospective mates, they slowly bump nose-to-nose or nose-to-head-and-neck, or else try submerging each other in a lugubrious contest of love. "I can swim to within five feet...