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...Cover rigatoni with marinara sauce, leaving no spiral thingy uncovered...
They're part of a story called "Stupid TV Tricks: The Billion-Dollar Battle to Insult Your Intelligence," which views MTV's animated anti-heroes as harbingers of the downward intellectual spiral of our generation: "They are specifically our losers, totems of an age of decline and nonachievement." And you thought they were just annoying...
Laderman's Marilyn, on the other hand, is for grownups. The libretto by Norman Rosten, based on his 1973 memoir Marilyn: An Untold Story, concentrates on Norma Jean's notorious love life, tracing her downward spiral to a drug- induced death in 1962. Soprano Kathryn Gamberoni gives a breakthrough performance as Monroe: after this, companies should be lining up to offer her femmes fatales from Bellini's Norma to Berg's Lulu. The opera, however, is as much of a mess as Marilyn was. Rosten's lines (Marilyn to her half-sister: "How's your little dog Lollie...
...back her theory, Profet relies on electron-microscopy studies that show bacteria attached to the heads and tails of wriggling sperm. She also cites the existence of spiral-shaped arteries in the uterus. These specialized blood vessels constrict and dilate in a sequence timed to induce menstruation. And, she claims, the blood that washes over the uterine walls differs from blood that circulates throughout the rest of the body. Menstrual blood lacks ingredients that cause clotting and is rich in special immune cells called macrophages. Even so, says Debrovner, "there is no reason to believe that blood, no matter what...
When will the spiral into anarchy stop? Who can say? Maybe when a coalition government with broad support comes to power. Maybe when economic conditions improve, and Blacks become better integrated into the workforce. One thing seems certain: South Africa's problems with violence seem inextricably linked to the societal transition. These birth pangs of democracy will only end when South Africa's new government has firmly claimed its authority and dashed the hopes of the opportunists, both criminal and political...