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C-4 The Orlando Sentinel, Monday, October 10, 1983 MUMMIES 1 Chemical may make leaders of monkeys, fraternity men From C-1 I t- 1 -V i 3t make a leader out of a monkey, but it does seem to help him stay one. Psychiatrist Michael McGuire and anthropologist Michael Raleigh discovered that serotonin levels fluctuate with the changing needs of the situation. If a leader is deposed (monkey politics can be as capriciously brutal as the human variety), the level of the chemical falls, and the corresponding level in the new leader rises within two weeks of taking office. McGuire and Raleigh, in trying to verify their results with a closely related human sample, tested the neurotransmitter level on the officers of a fraternity and found that they, too, had more serotonin than other members. By Stevenson Swanson CHICAGO TRIBUNE Scientists have discovered that monkeys have something in common with fraternity brothers, a fact that should surprise no one.

Researchers at the University of California Medical School in Los Angeles have been studying ver-vet monkeys to find out about the physiological differences between a leader and a follower, Science Digest reports. The leaders have almost twice as much serotonin in their blood as subordinate males have. Serotonin, one of the body's neurotransmitters that carries messages between nerves, does not wealthy, and eventually mummification became the practice of the upper and middle classes as well. Trusted servants and laborers could gain entrance into the life ever after if they were represented and identified in their master's tomb. Funerary statuettes, called shawabtis, were sometimes included in the mummy's tomb to provide a labor force in the afterlife.

Egyptians considered it essential that the body be intact for them to ascend into immortality. The videotaped autopsy showed that the 13-year-old child was missing the lower parts of its legs, and substitute limbs, made of reeds, mud and wooden splints, were included with the mummy. Methods of mummification changed over the centuries. Although the hot climate of Egypt caused the dead to decay rapidly, the traditional ritual of mummification took 70 days to complete. The first stage of mummification involved removing the brain and cutting the abdomen along the left side to remove the contents of the body, except for the heart.

Internal organs were treated with a preservative, neatly wrapped in linen bandages and placed in a clay "canopic" jar. After the body cavity was rinsed with palm wine and sprinkled with spices, the corpse was laid upon a substance that absorbed the skin's moisture. In the second stage, the Egyptian embalmer used scraps of linen and resin to give shape to the corpse. Once the body incision was closed, the corpse was sealed with a lotion of juniper resin, spices and beeswax. Cosmetics I- program on Egyptian astronomy, titled "Secrets of the Nile," is being presented in the science cen-tef planetarium.

A mummy of a child, not a part of' the original exhibit, was obtained through a Miami museum arid a cat mummy was donated for the exhibition by an Orlando woman. Science center director Mark Sinclair says that X-rays of the child mummy showed that the burial linens do not contain a complete skeleton but only a jumble of assorted bones. The practice of burying incomplete remains dates the mummy between 300 B.C. and A.D. 300, during a time of Greco-Roman domination in Egypt, Sinclair says.

The colors and style of the mummy's coffin, called a sarcophagus, and the inclusion of strings of beads with the mummy are consistent with the Egyptian burial practices at that time, a University of Pennsylvania mummy expert told Sinclair. X-rays found that the skeleton of. the cat also was incomplete. Animals, particularly pets, were often mummified and buried with their owners. When the Egyptians began the practice of mummification sometime between 3100 and 2750 B.C., it was a ritual reserved for royalty.

Only kings and queens possessed the "Pyramid Texts" instructions for finding their way to immortality. The secret rites later were disseminated to the i RECITAL From C-1 DENNIS WALL SENTINEL Showing its age ornately carved limestone piece was part of tomb decoration. were applied to give the face a lifelike appearance. Eyebrows were added. The wrapping of the body in linen bandages was a slow procedure punctuated by prayers and rituals.

The fingers and toes were wrapped separately, as were each limb, the head and the torso. Sawdust was often sprinkled between successive layers of wrappings. The final stage included the ad ditions of jewelry and amulets to ward off evil spirits. The completed mummy, adorned with flowers, was then placed inside the coffin. Funerals, especially for the wealthy, lasted all day.

Afterward, a festive banquet was held in which everyone rejoiced that the deceased was now on the way to the hereafter, along with the pets, servant figurines, bowls and other material posessions essential for a comfortable eternity. Chopin supplied the interpreter no signs for dynamics or for anything else in the enigmatic final movement. But he is known to have remarked that the "left and right hands gossip in unison." In Wodnicki's hands, that gossip was rendered all too loudly. And one missed the music's sense of sotto voce mystery. In other works, however, Wod-nicki proved to be a persuasive interpreter.

In the first movement of Haydn's major sonata, for example, the pianist endowed the staccato notes with considerable tension and cumulative momentum that were released in well-gauged outbursts. And the performances of Szy-manowski's Masques and three mazurkas were good enough to suggest that a re-evaluation of the composer is in order. In eastern bloc countries, Szymanowski (1882-1937) is considered one of this century's major composers. The voluptuous sense of orchestral color and the motoric rhythms that Wodnicki evoked in this music were enough to convince a listener that Szymanowski can be ranked close to Ravel and Debussy as a composer for the keyboard. Proceeds from the recital, which included Haydn's Sonata No.

50 in major and the once-ubiquitous Schulz-Evler transcription of Johann Strauss' By the Beautiful Blue Danube, benefited a Rollins department of music scholarship and a children's hospital in Gdansk, Poland. In this era of increasing internationalization of performance styles, it would be a mistake to assume that Wodnicki's Polish birth and upbringing automatically ensured idiomatic Chopin playing. In fact, his performances of the composer's Ballade No. 3, Sonata No. 2 (Funeral March), and the "Black Key" etude and "Military Polonaise," which were given as encores, showed him at his weakest.

Although the Third Ballade is the lightest and prettiest of the Ballades, Wodnicki's performance had a driven quality that made it sound mechanical and prosaic. And the sonata received a performance that was similarly flawed. COMEDY From C-1 help by the actors. Moore and Steenburgen are easily among the most attractive, subtle and resourceful performers in movies today. But when Romantic Comedy was over, I was still waiting for it to start.

As you watch this picture, the earth doesn't move. It doesn't even rumble. But Romantic Comedy, in its own bumbling way, scores a few laughs. Yes, a five sounds just about right. ed because, like Neil Simon, Slade avoids the real issues in his plays.

Instead of getting rich laughs from the suggestive situations he sets up in Romantic Comedy (and in his earlier comedy, Same Time, Next Year), Slade goes most often for easy laughs that deliberately miss the point. To give the writer his due, Slade's jokes are sometimes pretty funny in a facile, sitcomic Person. Dudley Moore's Arthur (1981) was a later version of this basic story. What makes Romantic Comedy different and clever is that the Right Person arrives too late. But what makes it disappointing is that the rich potential of this fresh idea is barely realized.

Slade avoids the tense, "sticky" moments that would make the movie exciting and deeply funny. There aren't any scenes in which Phoebe and Allison really talk to each other, for example. And these people barely seem to notice much less quarrel about Jason and Allison's little boy. It was directed by Arthur Hiller, whose past films include adaptations of two Neil Simon plays. The movie's basic idea is a twist on earlier romantic comedies.

In the 1930s and 1940s, pictures like It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday would start with the premise that someone is about to be married to the Wrong Person. But the disastrous marriage is prevented by the arrival just in time of the Right kind of way. Jason cattily describes Phoebe's uncultivated fiance (Ron Liebman) by saying, "He's a lot like Archie Bunker, but without the polish." OINE. DANCE SHOW EAMON O'CONNOR SOFT CONTACTS BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL CR Soft CONTACTS REGULAR EXAM $25 ZZX StdLensonly EXTENOEDWEAR $50 exam ASTIGMATIC 4 BIFOCAL 1fl TnrTi EXTEND LENS. $1U9 TOTAL 'LIMITED OFFER FREE CONTACT LUSTHIJU.

NO OBLIGATION October 10-22 Back From Ireland with his songs, Mickey Gioe's Quartet 8:30 to Closing Mon thru Sat. 125 Leprechan. Dummy and In Dr. Jul Ectratman Optometrist These confrontations are avoid- And the script is given some 843-3533 Se Habla Espanol 429-A E. Michigan Orlando BROCCOLI, BLEU CHEESE, OPERA some things you hate by habit Far years you turned up your nose at the thought of broccoli and never opted for the vat of chunky bleu cheese at the end of the salad bar.

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This year the Orlando Opera Company is TUNE IN TOMORROW'S NEWSPAPER. TONIGHT. I I Join Sentinel Executive Editor Steve Vaughn on Stereo 58 WDB0 for a lively audio excursion into the newsroom of The Orlando Sentinel and listen in as tomorrow's newspaper takes shape. The Orlando Sentinel "On Air" Weeknights 6:10 6:45 p.m. S8WBEQ celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary and is proud to present three major operas at the Bob Carr Centre for the Performing Arts: BIZET'S THE PEARL FISHERS February 10 12, 1984.

Some of the most beautiful music ever written details a great friendship destroyed by the love of a woman. The exotic mystery of ancient Ceylon is the setting for this opera which features incredible special effects and spectacular ballet in the great French Grand Opera tradition. GERSHWIN'S PORGY BESS March 9, 10 11, 1984. George Gershwin's classic American folk opera receives its first professional Florida production by Orlando Opera Company. The problems of love and life on Catfish Row are detailed in an unforgettable score featuring Summertime, It Ain't Necessarily So, and Bess, You Is My Woman Now.

PUCCINI'S TOSCA November 4 6, 1983. A passionate, thwarted love affair between a great opera singer, Tosca, and her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is brought to a lyric cltmax in Rome at the time of the Napoleonic conquest of Italy. Revolutionary ideals are mixed wijh murder and deception in an exjquisite, soaring score. 3LO SAVINGS when you admit that you hate it by habit! Take advantage of the "Broccoli Bleu Cheese Opera-tunity" and save 10 on season tickets. MAYOR BOH ARB CtNTRE SIATIN.

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