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...erupted when military policemen announced that it was about to be closed. Somehow our truck was allowed to pass, but even as we inched across the bridge, Wehrmacht sappers were attaching charges to its stone arches, and moments after we reached the other side, we heard the dull explosive thump that indicated the span had been blown. A few minutes later and we would have been blocked on the other shore...
DeNoble and Mele set up an experiment in which rats could administer - nicotine to themselves by pressing one of two levers. DeNoble said rats would thump the bar as often as 90 times in 12 hours to get the nicotine, vs. just 12 times a day for a saline solution. Even more telling, the researchers found that for nicotine combined with acetaldehyde, a product of burning cigarettes, the rats would press 500 times in 12 hours as opposed to 120 times in 12 hours for nicotine alone. "Our results demonstrated for the first time that nicotine shared common characteristics with...
...Sade's perversions sound unconvincing. He lacks the intensity and the wicked gleam in his eye necessary to persuade us he believes in the ideology of pain he espouses. There is a moment of redemption, however, when, shirtless, he subjects himself to a beating while the prisoners thump the floor methodically in a blood-thirsty crescendo. Then, physically, we feel his lust for pain...
Much of the music (Bruce Odland) brings this play ominously into the present: during the set changes, a deep bass beat reminiscent of rap and house rhythms pumps through the theatre, bringing to mind those pounding cars which thump through the city streets and disturb the peace of those who prefer their quiet space...
...born with no spleen and a heart with two right atria, John Paul will undergo heart surgery next month, and his parents cannot be sure how many birthdays remain. The boy's heart, Cisneros reflects, does not even sound like a normal heart. "Most human hearts go ker-thump, ker-thump," he says. "His goes swish, swish, swish...