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...month before the Games I had gone to the Olympic Training Center under the shadow of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs to be tested in the Sports Physiology laboratories there to see if by chance there was a particular Olympic event for which I was a perfect physical specimen to suit...
When the Museum of Comparative Zoology opened more than 100 years ago with a small specimen collection kept in limited space and financed on a shoestring budget, few people could have predicted that it would become one of America's best natural history collections and one of the preeminent teaching and learning grounds for natural historians...
Where the bird collection is numbered by specimen, though, the invertebrate paleontology collection is quantified in tonnage or groups of fossils. This fall the department had to throw away almost 20 tons of fossils because they were taking up too much room and no one could catalogue them. Only four fossil collections surpass Harvard...
Though Snider is a whining specimen of failed machismo, Fosse makes sure you realize that Snider is oblivious to his own absurdity. Snider sees only his reflected image: he exercises, grooms himself obsessively, and even says "Hello" to himself in different ways, all in front of the mirror. Later in the film, as his narcissism begins to crumble into self-loathing, he even watches himself throw up in the mirror, sneering at his reflection over a predatory mustache. Dorothy might have been able to save some men like this: behind the counter of the Dairy Queen she was just chunky...
...Although I appreciate your unequivocal "No" answer to the question of my alleged presence in Dallas at the time of J.F.K.'s murder. I would like to point out that my noninvolvement rests not only on "drastic differences" between the specimen photographs, but more conclusively upon the sworn testimony of several witnesses who confirm that I was in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22, 1963. It is a physical law that an object can occupy only one space at one time...