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LIAISON DANGEREUSE The hero of Philippi dumped his wife, who happened to be the Emperor's sister, to take up with Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt...
...might say, 'Wouldn't you just know a woman chief would do this to us?' " Any criticism was deflected by Watson's refusal to regard her pregnancy as an impediment, other than planning to take a six-week maternity leave after the baby arrives. Watson's older sister, Karen Philippi, who is a manager with the Houston water department, likens her to "women who used to have their babies in the field and go on picking cotton." True, but her condition did force Watson to reluctantly turn down a trip to California to appear on To Tell the Truth...
...developed sense of hearing that evolved--as did echolocution--to compensate for an inability to see underwater. The noises they make sound like clicks and whistles and meaningless barks to the human ear. However, some observers have noticed that whales put these sounds together in startling ways. Cummings and Philippi, who worked on the Navy's marine mammal research program, found that in the right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly that listeners could predict the appearance of the next type of signal." Carl Sagan noticed that...
...find in Plutarch, and he was invented chiefly to illustrate Brutus' considerateness of others. Fifteen-year-old Alan Howard plays him ardently and appealingly. When he falls asleep in the midst of singing and plucking his harp, Brutus affectionately covers him with a gown. When, after the battle at Philippi, Lucius is carried in, lain on the ground and tenderly shrouded in a blanket, one is more moved than by the death of any of the play's principals...
...effects. When Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus, Tharon Musser's eerie lighting makes it quite unnecessary to add the off-stage roll on the cymbal. And must we have another crude cymbal roll when Brutus runs on his sword? As a background to the aura of death at Philippi, Susa has also introduced on the harp an ostinato pattern from the Dies irae plainchant, which recalls the identical ostinato near the end of Rachmaninoff's tone-poem Isle of the Dead. At any rate, I suspect that even Sousa would have done better than Susa