Word: excepting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...true Vikings--those marauders of monasteries, those fearsome invaders from the north--had long since vanished, except in myth. As Europe's weak feudal fiefs had grown into powerful kingdoms, the Norse raiders had run out of easy victims. In England the victory in 1066 of William the Conqueror--a descendant of Norsemen from Normandy--marked the end of Viking terror...
...reproductive devices, the ancient Chinese eliminated the female foot, at least as a means of locomotion. More recently, in 1981, a male biologist implied in the esteemed journal Science that human females evolved to stand upright long after males did because what did females have to do anyway, except root around in the cave with the babies...
...Jarvik 2000, by contrast, has a tiny rotary pump--sort of a coronary Wankel engine that spins rather than squeezes. That might eliminate the pulse, which some physicians think could wreak unpredictable havoc on the body, except that the Jarvik is designed to replace only the left ventricle; the right still provides a beat...
...Skytypers," a mesmerizing loop about a minute long, the camera follows five planes flying parallel against a background of varying shades of blue sky. Although the planes are speeding through the air, the scene is essentially motionless, except for the shifting background of clouds and the slowly fading smoke trailing the planes. The film is so smoothly put together that the repetition can barely be noticed and the progression seems to continue forever...
Travis, Scottish sensations du jour, took to the stage first, a somewhat odd fact given that their most recent album (The Man Who) outsold the main act's. Except for their opening song (the much-overlooked 1997 single "All I Want to Do is Rock") Travis' set contained mostly songs from their recent album, with the biggest response coming for the gorgeous current single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Lead singer Fran Healy has the unique ability to make something trite sound like a display of pure vulnerability, and his use of speeches in between songs never came...