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...Location. After learning culdoscopy from Decker in 1951, Hayashi returned to Japan, developed his own culdoscopic technique and enlisted a crew to help him with his film. Because the reproductive process is virtually the same in all mammals, Hayashi used rabbit and monkey stand-ins for shots that might have caused serious discomfort in human patients, or endangered them or their developing eggs. The resulting scenes (the ovary expelling an egg, for example) are indistinguishable from their human counterparts. Furthermore, human volunteers were used for the crucial scenes. The sequences showing fetal development in the womb were filmed on location...
...other practical one, the President's days in office seemed numbered. "Over the weekend, there are going to be some decisions made," said a top Republican congressional leader. "People are going to be thinking about things. I don't know what the decisions will be. I have the monkey on my shoulder, no doubt about...
Terkel encounters the usual quota of people who say "I am a machine," "A monkey could do what I could," "I'm an object." Or more poignant because less forensic, the retired truck driver, age 66: "Most of my friends died on the verge of getting pensions. Because the truck driver at 40, his kidneys are beginning to kick up or he's got his whole prostate gland giving him a bad time." There are also moments of revelation. From a black washroom attendant in Chicago...
Gaslight, 4 p.m., 7:45, and Keeper of the Flame, 6 p.m., 9:45, through Saturday; Monkey Business (Marx Brothers), 4, 7, 10 p.m., and Alice in Wonderland (Fields), 5:25, 8:25, 11:25, through Tuesday...
...long strips crisscrossing the desert veer from a straight line by only a few yards every mile. The accompanying triangles, rectangles and trapezoids are laid out with equal precision. In their midst are drawings of huge spiders, a giant nine-fingered monkey, birds, fish and reptiles, some of them so large they are recognizable only from the air. For decades these ancient patterns, spreading across 30 miles of Peru's desolate Nazca plain, have confounded archaeologists. Why were they so painstakingly etched out of the bleak mesa? Could they have been signals to the gods, or-as the current...