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...dolphins have a better attitude toward their schooling than many children. When correct, they squeak excitedly as they race back to the trainer. When wrong, they sag noticeably and look about as depressed as it is possible for these benign creatures to look. Herman notes that they are not above resorting to tricks familiar to every student, such as rushing over to another object after choosing the wrong one, or positioning themselves at some ambiguous midpoint between two choices with the apparent hope that the trainer will say "Right!" On occasion, when wrong, they will take their chagrin...
...campus is awash with posters announcing too many comp meetings, advertising too many concerts and soliciting too many submissions, while clogged kiosks sag under the weight of information overload...
...ACTRESS ON TV SHUNS MAKEUP MORE defiantly than Helen Mirren. As London's detective chief inspector Jane Tennison, she wears every sag and wrinkle as if it were a combat medal. In Prime Suspect, last year's smashing PBS mini-series imported from Granada TV, Tennison struggled to prove her investigative mettle to male-chauvinist colleagues. That battle largely won, PRIME SUSPECT 2 (debuting Feb. 11 for four weeks) loses some of its feminist urgency. Here she investigates the murder of a black girl in a racially tense neighborhood and tries to keep her professional cool when a black detective...
...wrote an offstage suicide into the script. That small self-indulgence is about the only inside joke in Inspecting Carol, a piece so accessible and hilariously funny that, to Sullivan's surprise, it is also being produced this holiday season by half a dozen other theaters from Alaska to Sag Harbor, New York. At Chicago's Steppenwolf, part of the appeal is poking fun at the rival Goodman Theater's version of A Christmas Carol. At BoarsHead in Lansing, Michigan, Inspecting Carol plays in repertory with the target of its satire. Says Sullivan: "I guess it's becoming a tradition...
...triglycerides, compounds that can be broken down into fatty acids that the body can use for fuel. After days or weeks, depending on how meager the rations, these raids result in a condition known as marasmus. Without fat to support it, the skin begins to lose elasticity and sag. Loss of fat around the eyes gives them a sunken look, and the face starts to wrinkle in what starvation experts call the old-man syndrome. The other principal form of starvation, kwashiorkor, is largely a protein-vitamin-mineral deficiency. Its most common symptom: swollen legs and ankles, caused by fluid...