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...probably such an object that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Realizing that a deadly collision could happen again, astronomer Eugene Shoemaker decided nearly two decades ago to use a small but powerful telescope to look for comets and asteroids headed this way. Five years ago, a member of Shoemaker's team saw a chunk of rock perhaps a third of a mile across that had just zipped by the planet at a distance of only 450,000 miles. There are about 2,000 large bodies that cross the orbit of Earth and could, in theory...
...exotic landmarks. On his own, Theroux discovered the La Brea tar pits, the world"s largest mastodon graveyard, which conatins what he calls a "cynical metaphor" for Los Angeles: the skeleton of a woman who died about 9,000 years ago."Her skull was bashed in by a blunt object: this first Angeleno, the wall label tells you, was also LA's first known homicide victim...
...there." Indeed, while the seven scenes of the drama all unfold in Leopold's living room, and he is the focal point of nearly all the dialogue, Lithgow for the most part persuades us that he is, as his "friend" Bertram (David Gammons) says, the "passive object" of his own life...
...appending a quasi-sexual violence to the string of cliches he spits out. Gammons flaunts his matter-of-fact power over Leopold, crescendoing to an explosive frenzy with his own discourse; at the time Walling enters, Bertram is literally straddling Leopold, who Rouse has virtually transformed into the "passive object" of sexual, as well as intellectual interest. What Gammons' words and behavior add to the hollowed grammar of Leopard's existence, Fish and Stone, in their simple characterization of the identical Sidneys and the two chaps, uncover as farce; the disturbing familiarity of everything Leopold says...
...object to your statement that battered women often deliberately provoke their batterers, thus perpetuating a sick cycle. Sure, it's normal for couples to get on each other's nerves. But it is not normal to deal with that by throwing a punch, or even threatening...