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Bruce Lee, Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Willis came along in the '70s and '80s. And there was that Monty Python sketch about drunk Australians named Bruce. Still, it wasn't what you'd call a butch name. A girl I once dated got teased by her friends...
...female voices tally his and her scores. Best of the lot is Yang Fudong's 13-minute Backyard, Hey, Sun is Rising, following the irresistibly silly antics of four bald men brandishing sabers as they parade through city streets and homes. Yang seems inspired by Mack Sennett, Monty Python and the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. There are relatively few paintings or drawings on show. Liu Xiaodong paints scenes of daily life with thick, vigorous brush strokes in a Westernized style he calls "cynical realism"; his Through the Ages Heroes Have Come From the Young depicts a gritty...
...species it differs by just a handful of letters. The effect is to alter the expression of the HoxC8 gene in the development of the chicken embryo. This means the chicken makes thoracic vertebrae in a different part of the body than the mouse. In the python, HoxC8 is expressed right from the head and goes on being expressed for most of the body. So pythons are one long thorax; they have ribs all down the body...
...Francisco. During his 14 years as head of Boston's WGBH, that station became PBS's largest programming supplier, responsible for developing such PBS staples as Masterpiece Theatre, Frontline and Nova, many with British pedigrees. His station also introduced Americans in 1974 to the British cult comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus...
...that college is a time of experimentation. I suspect that they are referring to more low-brow activities than frantically trying to shush a baby lamb, but I learned quite a bit from my reptile, bird and rodent adventures: I know how to administer a shot to a squirming python, that microwaves are not to be used in defrosting frozen rats, and that you should never help a baby duck peck out of its shell. And my college stories are more hairy (feathered, scaled, etc.) than most...