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...alive." It is a spoof of everything from waltzing toreadors to Tennessee Williams; and like the characters of Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Kopit's people are named with florid symbolism-Madame Rosepettle, Rosalie, Commodore Roseabove, Rosalinda the Fish-but without even the simplest clue to the possible significance of all the roses. Yet the sum of all this is more than derivative lampoon and parody. Full of primary humor and insight, it is cohesively and originally a comic play...
Machines or Books? There are three leading models of machines. Simplest is Grolier-Teaching Machines Inc.'s Min/ Max ($20): the student slides pieces of paper through it with a pencil eraser. Rheem Califone's Didak 501 ($157.50) follows Skinner's original design, with the programing on paper tape. Crowder designed Western Design's new AutoTutor Mark II ($1,250), a highly sophisticated branching device with up to 5,000 frames of microfilm. Eastman Kodak is well launched on a microfilm device, capable of handling different programs, that would sell to public schools for about...
...century ars antiqua to the twentieth century twelve tone scale. Shimizu's set was a black curtain whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even his costumes were abstractions of Medieval clothing. Chris Avery and Robert Hoguet used the simplest imaginable lighting patterns, and somehow it all worked. Unbridled enthusiasm, which the best amateur productions usually boast as their highest achievement, here gave way to something much finer, style. Even if one understood only a few lines of the French, the movement on stage would have told the whole story...
...provided new evidence in an old astronomical dispute. Astronomers agree that the universe is made of gigantic star clusters-galaxies-that are racing away from each other like the hot molecules of an exploding gas. But they do not agree why this is happening or how it started. The simplest explanation, the "evolving universe" or "big-bang" theory, is that a few billion years ago, all matter in the universe was concentrated in a relatively small volume of space. Then a vast explosion scattered the cosmic material, which formed into galaxies and fled into emptiness...
...worst victims are subject to terrifying sensations. Their arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...