Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Casting is surely the main draw for its season finale, a revival of the flimsy 1935 comedy Three Men on a Horse that opened last week. Randall and his Odd Couple TV partner Jack Klugman are paired for the first time ever in parts other than fussy Felix and macho Oscar -- but not very much other. Randall plays a fey, naive would-be poet who writes greeting-card verses and as a hobby handicaps horse races. Klugman plays a boozing, brawling professional bettor who discovers that Randall never picks the wrong horse and press-gangs him into partnership. In lesser...
...Sometimes John thinks I'm thinking of ways to kill him," Levin concedes. "I certainly couldn't do it without a partner," she hastens...
...skill at infighting and pride in the art of firing failed subordinates even as the character edges toward a moral quandary. He evokes the wife's protectiveness and pragmatic respect toward her husband's labor even as she lashes out to end it. The play implies in each partner a hint of madness, then suggests how hard it is to distinguish between madness and vision. Ron Rifkin, who had a career-transforming success in The Substance of Fire, is even better in Three Hotels. Christine Lahti gives the less nuanced role of the wife an eerie blend of wit, charm...
SPACE: NASA's New Partner...