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...Girls seem to think "globally," responding to situations as a whole instead of abstracting single elements. In the "rod and frame test," for instance, a subject sits in a dark room before a luminous rod inside a slightly tilted frame, and is asked to move the rod to an upright position. Boys can separate the rod visually from the frame and make it stand straight; girls, misled by the tipped frame, usually adjust the rod not to the true vertical but to a position parallel with the sides of the frame...
...through the pumice from the gully bed. "We hit the bull's-eye right away," he boasts. "We struck at the heart of the most aristocratic quarter." Buildings standing two and three stories high, with 50-ft. street fronts, "French doors" and traces of balconies, were found still upright, protected by the dry volcanic ash that enveloped them before the final massive explosion. Upward of 3,500 ceramic pots and vases have been found, but no human or animal remains and no valuables. Marinates explains that the people of the town, warned of the impending disaster by earth tremors...
...within the context of Yanos' explanation to his fishermen friends of Anada's return to the river and suicide. As Yanos recalls his increasingly dominant passion--his brusqueness dissolving into his kissing her, his resolve to flee melting into his buying her secret presents that she refuses, all his upright intentions leading to his sleeping with her--he cannot separate reality from his imagination's desires. When he recalls making love with Anada, she uses the same words as his wife. Has his imagination supplied that speech to make the act less immoral, or has he invented the whole incident...
Everybody knows what ragtime is: piano players in striped shirts and sleeve garters sitting under Tiffany lamps and slapping battered upright pianos that sound as if they had been dipped in water and set out in the sun to bake. Grand opera...
...trial period beginning Dec. 1, in which he would show only G-rated movies. He leased the popular picture Planet of the Apes, as well as other family films, and even reduced the adult-admission price from $3 to $1.25. Then he waited for the deluge of upright parents and gladsome children...