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...every page of Susan Brind Morrow's first book, The Names of Things (Riverhead; 232 pages; $25.95). Taking herself into the Egyptian desert, Morrow works as a kind of archaeologist of the living world, digging for meanings as she watches cranes, catches "sundogs" and learns that the saddle-bill stork in the first hieroglyphs represented the soul. Language, she recalls, quoting Emerson, is "a sort of tomb of the Muses... Language is fossil poetry...
...safe to say KELLY CURTIS' career isn't much like that of her famous relatives. Her dad Tony dressed in drag, her mother Janet Leigh got it in a shower, and her kid sister JAMIE LEE was dragged by a helicopter; but none was ever raped by a big stork. "I think I'm the only actress ever to have been violated by a marabou," Curtis says proudly. That act behind her (in straight-to-video, The Devil's Daughter), Curtis plays a forensics expert on UPN's new series The Sentinel. Being a Curtis has its downside...
...over the Internet came to him last year in a moment he describes as an epiphany. According to Eugene, he was "chosen" to open the first gambling den on the electronic frontier. He is convinced that in another life he was the founder of New York City's famous Stork Club...
...played to packed theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Linz, Austria, he appears onstage framed by the image of a virtual world he enters when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which is bend and stretch like some contorted stork. His movements elicit eerie, tinkling notes from the computer-generated virtual instruments he is playing: a Cybersax, a CyberXylo and a Rhythm Gimbal...
...York City banker who bought out Indian communities much the way William Randolph Hearst emptied Spanish monasteries. One section of the museum, called "Creation's Journey," displays such Heye treasures as the famous, blood-red Crow shield, featuring a haunting human figure incorporating the actual body of a stork, which figured prominently in a Crow triumph over the Cheyenne; a gemlike Pomo hummingbird-feather basket; and an exquisite ceremonial mask from the 19th century Pacific Northwest...