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...Gorilla Falls, which executive designer Joe Rohde, who dreamed up the park, carefully calls "a representation, not a reproduction, of an African habitat." Stop to gaze at--then try, just try to tear yourself away from--the terrarium of mole rats, burrowing or eating or just collapsed in a pile like a failed pyramid of cheerleaders. In a cloudy tank, two hippos float with hefty grace. Meerkats (completing The Lion King's "hakuna matata" trio) stand sentinel on a hill, gazing through glass at suspected predators: us. Finally, an ennead of gorillas--four bachelors on one side of a waterfall...
...glance at the pile of textbooks stacked high on my desk is a constant reminder that the never-ending cycle of work can only be ignored for a while. This cycle, work-sleep-work-work-don't -sleep-work-CRASH, seems an unavoidable and undesirable downward spiral, the end result of which remains mysterious...
...great 19th century French realist Gustave Courbet once said that an artist ought to be able to render something--a distant pile of sticks, say, in a field--without actually knowing what it was. The hyperrealist Chuck Close has gone one better than that. In 1971 he painted the face of his father-in-law Nat Rose. The huge, minutely detailed likeness was bought by a Maryland collector who lent it to the Whitney Museum in New York City. There it was seen by an ophthalmologist who, not sure whether he was intruding or not, got a message to Close...
Except for the island, all these have been sold--but money from these and other donations doesn't just pile up together under Harvard's mattress...
...perusal. D. finally managed to pry open the mailbox after running through several dozen possible lock combinations (having forgotten hers), only to be bitterly disappointed by the usual array of phone bills and overdue library fines. Just as she was about to throw the vast majority of the pile away, however, she noticed an envelope emblazoned with the words "JURY DUTY: YOUR CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY." The date of summons was June 16. D. had committed no crime, yet D. was summarily screwed...