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...mess arrives Tilden's estranged son Vince and his girl-friend, Shelly. Much to his frustration, no one seems to recognize Vince, and he leaves the house to find Dodge a bottle of whiskey. In the day or so that she's left alone with these frightening people, Shelly somehow manages to dredge up all the secrets that have been slowly consuming the family...
...into the empty orchestra pit. The sheer size of the steep, imposing staircase that looms in the background makes it seem to have much more to do with the action of the play than it actually does. But it looks great nonetheless, especially when the scrim behind it is somehow made to look like falling rain...
...Somehow Americans lost such protections in broadcast media, where coarse language is strictly regulated. The bill would hold expression on the Net to the same standards of purity, using far harsher criminal sanctions--including jail terms--to enforce them. Moreover, it would attempt to impose those standards on every human who communicates electronically, whether in Memphis or Mongolia. Sounds crazy, but it's true...
...television that the mere sight of one was enough to produce pandemonium in our Washington neighborhood. "Colored on TV," someone would shout from the front porch, and all normal activity ceased as everybody within earshot rushed to the nearest set for a moment of electronic racial solidarity. If somehow you missed the event, you felt seriously deprived. At a time when the civil rights movement was just beginning, seeing blacks on the tube made us feel more like a part of America. We wanted them to be there even if it meant settling for a demeaning sitcom like Amos...
...face of it, this seems insane. Since most redbacks do it, however, there has to be an explanation. Somehow, the male's odd behavior must have offered an evolutionary advantage, or it never would have become entrenched. Now Maydianne Andrade, a University of Toronto graduate student, reports in the current Science that she has discovered what it is. A female who is chewing on her boyfriend is distracted and allows him to copulate longer. That lets him deposit the maximum amount of sperm, giving him a better chance of passing along his genes. Beyond that, a sperm-filled female tends...