Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drum is a percussion instrument of surprising subtlety. But so is the heel, not to mention the toe and the palm of the hand. All are on display at ; Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater, where Flamenco Puro opened last week and -- like its sister show, last year's Tango Argentino -- astonished as much as it entertained...
...screen, a short film showed an oversize golden sun hanging on the horizon while glistening waves caressed a deserted beach. Another depicted a beach chair dragging itself across the sand, dipping an aluminum toe in the water and timidly scampering away. Still another presented two Luxo desk lamps playing a friendly game of catch, stretching their springy arms and butting a rubber ball with their warm, cone-shaped heads...
...cares about the Statue of Liberty? By modern high-rise standards, it is dinky, a dozen stories from head to toe. And by the standards of statuary, Lady Liberty is absurdly huge, unnecessarily literal, a giant trinket as vulgar as a sign on the Las Vegas strip. It is hardly an ancient monument. Except for Richard Morris Hunt's pedestal, the thing was not even Made in America. (Perfect protectionist irony: an imported patriotic icon...
...early 1960s pictures of the site appeared in a creationist book called The Genesis Flood, and the creationist camp seized on them to prove their contention that all species had once coexisted. The arguments were precariously based on the widely held belief that bipedal dinosaurs stepped toe first when walking, a conclusion bolstered by the fact that their tracks usually include only the front part of the foot and the three toes, with the heel generally faint or missing. At Paluxy, some prints are oblong and toeless. True, they are 15 to 20 in. long, but, argue creationists, they could...
...other words," says Kuban, "there was no question that a dinosaur was capable of making these elongated prints." He offers several explanations for the toelessness, all acceptable to paleontologists: soft mud might have filled the narrow toe marks soon after the dinosaur walked by. Then, too, some other material may have sifted into the toe marks long after the prints hardened. Or perhaps, for some reason, erosion distorted the prints. Even before Kuban's findings, mainstream scientists did not lose much sleep over the Paluxy footprints. Says Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has visited the site: "Everyone knows that...