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...15th year of her affliction, her 90th of living, she has become an exhibit in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Come see the former junior high school English teacher, wit, storyteller and singer to children transformed before your very eyes into a sphinx. Yet she is still a great beauty, ladies and gentlemen. The silver hair, the smooth pink skin. Go ahead and touch her. She won't bite. (Then again, she might...
...someday and decide that the great portrait of 1997 was Dolly the cloned sheep. In her anonymous face our misgivings about science are perfectly duplicated, mostly because she's our best picture of the assembly-line production of life. (Unless you count the McCaughey septuplets.) Dolly is also our sphinx in the manger. Somewhere in the black dots of her eyes there's a message, something about how hard it is to micromanage the most subtle departments of creation. Lamb of God, lamb of man--when we look at her, is that our future we see? Maybe it's just...
...TIME political correspondent Jeffrey Birnbaum. More specifically, Birnbaum adds, Powell disagrees with Dole on a number of key issues such as abortion and affirmative action. So is he waiting for 2000, or heading off into the sunset once and for all? "I haven't passed over yet," Powell offered, sphinx-like. "I'm not ready to go down to Hilton Head and sit in a rocking chair and drink gin fizzes." Anita Hamilton
...color-coded message, which is repeated throughout the exhibit, represents the mythical riddle of the ancient Egyptian sphinx: "I am the riddle of life. Know me and you will know yourself...
David Mamet's cryptic, Kafkaesque An Interview takes place between the Attorney (Paul Guilfoyle) and the Attendant (Gerry Becker). Theirs is an encounter between a terrier and a sphinx: lots of barking on one side, stony silence on the other. The Attorney has apparently been summoned to defend his life, and as his exasperation rises, Guilfoyle displays a wonderfully mobile range of faces: puzzlement, gloating self-assertion, crumpled resignation. If An Interview finally seems like a one-joke drama, it's dexterous enough to dispense a little wallop of spooky uneasiness...