Several lines from Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, currently playing at the Young Vic with Jane Horrocks (left), have a timely resonance.
For all her sharp-shooting, Annie Oakley emerges as a low impact woman: no diamonds, no pearls, no mansion, no yacht, no silver and no gold. Even wiser:
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still, I'd like to express my thanks.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night
All-female and able to survive 24,000 years on ice: all hail the resilient
rotifer
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Tiny aquatic animal can also withstand desiccation, radiation and extreme
heat, and reproduces asexually
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