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...film are no less impressive. In one, bones, muscle and the membrane of the middle ear vibrate in time to Yankee-Doodle, helping transmit sound to the brain. In yet another, blood cells line up to pass one at a time through the tightly constricted passageway of a tiny vein. But one scene, more than any other, suggests how far science must go before it fully understands the activities it has recorded. In this sequence, cells from the heart muscle lie in a culture dish, each continuing to beat at its own rhythm until it comes into contact with another...
...lighter vein...Emerson College is exhibiting something called "The Turbeville Collection of Original Cartoon Art" at the First and Second Church in Boston, corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets. Through...
Again in this vein, "Too Much of Nothing" is a meditation upon the danger of despair...
Eminent Domain. Butte was originally settled by gold prospectors, but it owes its development-and recent decline-to copper. In 1882, a prospector named Marcus Daly found a 5-ft. vein of 30% pure copper ore while searching for silver. Daly's discovery touched off a wild scramble for the precious ore, which was eventually won by Anaconda. By 1910, the company owned the rights to the minerals underlying 90% of the city. It also held the right of eminent domain, which allows it to buy up any sur face property that stands in the way of its operations...
...world, show the influence of a melancholy expressionism. Max Beckmann turns his acerbic melancholy on German society in "Wrestling Match:" a joyful orchestra accompanies two headlocked wrestlers in front of high society onlookers who hoot from gilded balconies or eat delicacies at tables bordering the fight. In a lighter vein, Franz Marc characteristically uses animal symbolism in his woodcut "Creation." Lighter still is Dadaist Kurt Schwitters' "Composition with Profile," a well-composed, child-like doodling...