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...initial discomfort caused and expressed by Napier cracks the divide between the reality of the audience’s pre-show chatterings and that of the play’s. Stone ties a knot around this introductory tension between voyeuristic guilt and pleasure. He engages the audience in his challenge to untangle the thread which he proceeds to reveal in glimpses throughout the show’s “17 Scenarios for Theatre,” the play’s subtitle. However, this strand proves to be so complexly woven through and around itself that its fragments suggest...
Another big enviro-sex trend: birth control that's au naturel. Like all good Catholics, my husband and I had to attend church-run marriage prep before we tied the knot last year. I was surprised, however, during the hard sell on natural family-planning (NFP), that this updated version of the rhythm method was being advertised not only as morally correct but also as "organic" and "green." I was even more surprised when I found out that some of the most popular instructors of NFP--known in secular circles as the Fertility Awareness Method--are non-Catholics who praise...
...Nature’s devised a stunningly elegant solution to storing information—a super-dense, knot-free structure,” said senior author Eric S. Lander, director of the Broad Institute...
...thought of himself as "part of the scene," he counted among his friends screen legends like Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier. "I told him at an Oscar ceremony he was the most famous person here," says director Steven Spielberg. "He blushed." When longtime bachelor Warren Beatty finally tied the knot in 1992, Archerd got the exclusive in a call from the newlywed himself. His column was short on sensationalism, but in 1985 Archerd broke what he later called "the biggest show-business story ever"--the news that actor Rock Hudson was dying of AIDS. The delicately worded item introduced...
...rate of divorce has risen, the researchers expected the number of people living below the poverty line to grow 2.6%. But when they looked at the data, poverty had increased by less than half that amount. (See photos of Carley Roney and David Liu, co-founders of the Knot...