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...geyser Old Faithful, the park features much more than the famous geothermal fountain. Lake Yellowstone is a beautiful resource for boaters and fishermen. The yellow walls and stunning waterfall of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone are said by many to rival the Grand Canyon of Arizona in splendor. Numerous geothermal features, including fumaroles and other geysers, are colorful and smelly and make for a fascinating field lesson in geology. Finally, Yellowstone is known for its wildlife. It is a paradise for birders and one of the few places in the continental U.S. where grizzly bears still roam...
...thing more: record with a microphone. Digital nirvana. The DATman is about the size of a Stephen King paperback, but rather less thick. It uses the same DAT cassette (which is less than half the size of the traditional analog cassette), records up to two hours of digitized splendor and plays it all back with impeccable fidelity. It makes conventional analog tape sound by comparison like an Edison cylinder...
...Lilliputians. Each word became part of a picture in the mind. I don't know how long it took Swift to write this particular description, but it helped open young minds to the kind of imagery that belongs to creative expression. We had the same sense of literary splendor when our teacher read -- so carefully and lovingly -- from Thomas Hardy or the Brontes, or when she asked one of us to read Flaubert's word portrait of Emma Bovary...
...COURTLY SPLENDOR: TWELVE CENTURIES OF TREASURES FROM JAPAN, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To celebrate the enthronement of Japan's new Emperor, Akihito, a selection of 60 objects -- among them scrolls, sculpture and a lacquered wood saddle with inlaid mother-of-pearl -- illustrating the court's role as a patron of the arts. Through...
Where does this decade still live on in all its sleazy splendor? At the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, where the six-member script selection committee has picked its 1991 production, Safari Sagoodi, by Lawrence E. Finer '91 and Jonathan R. Aibel...