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...action shifts there, lush red drapes bordering the stage drop to the floor, as if a veil were ripped aside to reveal reality. The staircase leading from the living floor to the aerie where the Ekdals keep caged birds, including the duck of the title, is a noisy, bone-jouncing climb. The family's photo business consists of little more than a giant lamp that can be swung around to shine in the eyes of whoever is being addressed or accused, including the audience...
CHRISTMAS HAS COME early for the piranha, who size up my story like an unwary calf caught midstream, preparing to strip it to the bone. Leading the attack, of course, is the Antichrist. Making horrible little humming and clucking noises, he rips through my story, eyebrows galloping wildly across the unnatural expanse of his forehead. Each mark he makes is a slap in the face, a stain on my honor...
There was some argument about the plot of Love's Labour's Lost, and she suddenly cut the matter to the bone. Raising her hand high and proud, she proclaimed "Shakespeare's no fool...
...Keeffe always rejected the idea that her scenes of New Mexico were meant as symbols or allegories. But it is hard to see their contrasts of image -- an Indian paintbrush or a wild daisy put against the bleached bone of a ram's skull, and that bone repeating the ancient permanence of mountain line -- without grasping that some transaction beyond the simply formal or factual is afoot. This is particularly true with her flower paintings: magnified closeups, filling the whole surface, of a black iris, a jack-in-the-pulpit, or a calla lily. Almost from the moment that they...
...directed a Stanford study comparing the joints of 41 long-distance runners with those of 41 nonrunners and occasional runners. The researchers found no difference between the two groups in the prevalence of osteoarthritis, or degenerative joint disease. However, the runners, ages 50 to 72, did have 40% higher bone density than their counterparts in the control group. "Running prevents bone loss," concludes Lane, "and that's a good finding for women," since they often develop osteoporosis after menopause. At the University of Florida, Gainesville, Dr. Richard Panush and his colleagues compared a group of 17 male runners, ages...