In his gracefully written book, "Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry," the physicist Frank Close explores this concept, beginning with a visit to the Tuileries Gardens in Paris.
In that opening show, for instance, he cycled through various stories — beginning with a visit that afternoon to a fortuneteller — that eventually led to a revelation of his return from the brink after a suicide attempt after the "Jobs" brouhaha.
This one-hour tour makes about a dozen stops, beginning with a visit to a copy of the California-based "Tonight Show," where visitors can see themselves on camera.
Beginning with a visit in 1957, Lawrence Gussman of Scarsdale, N.Y., returned annually for more than 30 years as a volunteer at Dr. Albert Schweitzer's medical mission in Lambaréné, Gabon.
But after the intermission the film becomes a delirious celebration of American exceptionalism, beginning with a visit to the pioneering Florida theme park Cypress Gardens, and culminating in a magisterial montage of aerial views, from Lower Manhattan to the Grand Canyon, accompanied by the inevitable Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing "America the Beautiful".
He was brought up by a single mother who refused to tell him anything about his biological father, but, beginning with a visit to the Vermont woodsman who was his stepfather for a while, he comes to discover a kind of extended family.
