Word: shapes
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Most of the other actors are similarly inadequate. Mitchell Agruss, as Theseus, handles some of Shakespeare's most exquisite poetry as if it were prose; Rae Allen (Hippolyta) cannot shape a long speech so as to maintain any interest at all; three of the four young Athenians are incompetently portrayed, with only Mariette Hartley, as Helena, rising above mediocrity. Titania, Oberon, and most of their minions were neither human nor supernatural, and failed completely to blend the two in the way that the play requires. Some child-fairies, costumed in what appeared to be their pajamas, were revolting...
Hare has impressed Munro in the few days he has been out. He may not be in very good shape today after only one real workout, but he is expected to aid the Crimson materially as the season progresses. Munro has described Kramer, a wing, as "small and slow, but with a good foot." The diminutive sophomore will get his big chance tomorrow as relief for the depieted wing corps...
...rard and I have corresponded regularly since making acquaintance while we were with the Office of the Secretary to the Staff at SHAPE in Paris five years ago. After service with the French army at SHAPE, Gérard went to Taizé and was ordained in the community. The 20-year-old community has, in my estimation, fostered a basic doctrine of religious understanding which, if carried out by the various religious sects in our world, would do much to bring about a brotherhood of man that could lead to a definite, lasting peace...
...from the senses. Wells says that octopus senses are pretty sensible. An octopus eye is built much like a human eye; both have a lens that throws an image on a light-sensitive retina. The chief difference is that the human eye is focused by muscles that change the shape of the lens. In the octopus eye the lens is moved back and forth, like that of a camera, to get a sharp focus. This arrangement seems to work efficiently for octopuses. In fact, the ghastly, slit-pupiled eyes of an octopus may even distinguish between different kinds of polarized...
...Picture. When an octopus is blinded by having its optic nerves cut, it still has the delicate touch organs in its eight arms, but it cannot distinguish the shape or size of an object that it touches. All that it can feel is local roughness. The human brain gathers reports from many touch sensors, puts them together and builds up a picture of the object touched. The octopus brain cannot do this, even when several arms are touching the same object. Apparently its central intelligence does not even know clearly where its arms are. In other words, while the octopus...