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Thankfully, Royal Hunt of the Sun manages to rise above the Peruvian swamp in which its characters (and audience) find themselves, but only when Ducey or Mitchell is permitted on stage. As Spanish explorers curious about the culture they hope to subsume, they provide the best moments in the play. Mercifully, the play becomes less patriarchal than anthropological when Pizarro and De Soto stop being conquerors and become students...
Sometimes, when U.S. colloquialisms are so cryptic that not even a dictionary can help, members call on TIME's Seoul bureau. There reporter K.C. Hwang and assistant Kim Jung Ran aid in deciphering such curious expressions as Where's the beef?, laundering money, or read my lips...
...walked over. Other neighbors became curious. The family in whose driveway the woman lay came outside...
...Carolina, Senator Jesse Helms is enlisting the so-called dirty pictures he has so publicly opposed. At a barbecue in Burlington, Helms' speech included an invitation -- men only, please -- to examine three portfolios guarded by his assistants. "You won't look long because you just ate," Helms warned the curious, who stepped forward to peer at reproductions of the Robert Mapplethorpe nudes from the show partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. "Tell me whether you resent taxpayers' money going to this!" boomed the Senator...
...Ants is not only another milestone in a remarkable career but also a high point in crossover publishing. For the specialist, Holldobler and Wilson bring elegance and order to a complex subject. For the curious layman, there is a glimpse into the workings of evolution. Charles Darwin called it the tangled bank, a bucolic metaphor suited to his time and place. Today researchers see deeper into the diversity. "Mammals join societies as a means of furthering individual survival and reproduction," says Wilson. "Ants have arranged their social life so that the unit of survival is the colony...