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...actor because I thought I had a "third eye" where life is concerned, something the average person has but doesn't develop. I was always fascinated by why people do things the way they do them, why they walk a certain way, talk a certain way, or have a tick. I've always tried to take any character that I've played and tried to find the beauty in him, even if it's the most arch-villian role ever written. Richard III is not an evil man because he's an evil man; something made him that...
...When the sun rises, Physicists Dror Sadeh and Benjamin Au report in Nature, the ticking of their test atomic clock mysteriously slows down and then speeds up. Sadeh and Au observed this disconcerting phenomenon after discovering another strange effect: the farther they carried an atomic clock from their laboratory, the slower it seemed to run in relation to a similar clock that was left behind. Pondering the strange "distance effect," they decided to compare the performance of two atomic clocks at separate, fixed locations over an extended period of time. They stationed one clock at Cape Fear, N.C.; their other...
...trends-both social and business-are here. Why? It is because a helluva lot of people are hard at work, creating and hustling into motion a better way of life. The lunatic elements make for colorful copy, but they contribute damned little to the dynamics that make this state tick...
...also has going for him the gracefully stark set, costumes, and lighting (by Bruce West, Joan Minto and Jim Harrison, respectively) and a swell rock band, The Rhythm Method, whose rendition of John Hall's music for "Morning" give that play the ersatz soul quality that helps make it tick...
What Moby Dick did not reveal, The Year of the Whale does-and on terms that can stand the comparison. Victor B. Scheffer is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, but his facts tick off the tongue of a poet. The result is a brilliant and affectionate one-mammal bestiary...