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Earlier this week, renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer sat down with FM for a little quickie before answering questions for a joint event of the Harvard College Women’s Center and the Seneca. With a slight twinkle in her eye and a quiver in her voice, this 78-year-old dishes on college sex and her career answering questions about orgasms. And to be frank...4’ 7” has never looked sexier...
...camera, and "followed up every bit of a clue I could find" about spiders. His discoveries about what he calls "probably the greatest predators of all"-our silent allies, he says, in the fight against insect pests-at times moved him to poetry: "the rearing plunge, one breath/ One quiver, trussed, immobile, bound in silk!/ Transfixed by spider fangs-held fast in death...
...Yannatos, who, without speaking, launched the orchestra into their performance of “Tristan und Isolde.” Beginning from the opera’s hesitant first bars, the orchestra ratcheted up the grand Wagnerian drama by a series of sympathetic cascades, each terminating in a foreboding quiver. In a fantastic back-and-forth between the strings’ woodwinds, Yannatos led the orchestra seamlessly between moods, in a progressive build that highlighted the orchestra’s flutes.Perhaps most impressive was the orchestra’s ability to avoid the maudlin bombast typically endemic of Wagner. From...
...QUIVER TREE This striking giant aloe was given its name by the San people of southern Africa, who use the tree's hollow branches as quivers for their arrows. Scientists have discovered that quiver trees are starting to die off in parts of their traditional range. The species might be in the early stages of moving southward, trying to escape rising temperatures closer to the equator...
...shatter. Displayed along glass cabinets usually reserved for sacred scroll paintings are mere pots of wood-fired clay. But through the alchemy of her kiln, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism, is its mother superior. "If there...