Outside the theatre, a murderous monster is on the loose, and inside the timid Dr Alfred Binet Matthew Pearsonn) attempts to probe the mind of the self-styled "prince of terror", aka the amiable playwright André de Lorde (Jonathan Broadbent), and discover the trauma that spurs De Lorde's creativity.
And then there is Mr. Herzog, a veteran filmmaker who has used the documentary form to probe the mind of a nature lover who was devoured in a bad encounter with bears in "Grizzly Man," and for a 3-D exploration of prehistoric cave paintings, in "Cave of Forgotten Dreams".
When one has an ample block of time to probe the mind of Robert Diggs, the hip-hop star, actor, filmmaker and chess master better known as the RZA, the question naturally arises: will the Wu-Tang Clan, the group that he led on hit albums like "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" and "Wu-Tang Forever," ever get back together for another record or tour?
Fifty Shades of Grey may be a fun read, but it's not going to help you probe the minds of others the way War and Peace might.
To turn you from hotel amateur to hotel pro, we've probed the minds of lodging experts to hear their tips on saving the most money and maximizing every hotel stay you book.
With Satyagraha (1979) and Akhnaten (1983), its immediate followers, it formed a trilogy of "portrait operas" that probed the minds of non-violent change-agent personalities in human history.
David Markson, whose wry, elliptical novels probing the scattered mind of the artist and the unruly craft of making art were frequently called postmodern and experimental and almost always surprisingly engaging and underappreciated, died Friday in his Greenwich Village apartment.
The study says something interesting about the spatial abilities of reptiles, but more importantly it reveals the usefulness of touchscreen technology for probing the animal mind.
Dr. Hare, now an associate professor at Duke, has continued to probe the canine mind, but his research has been constrained by the number of dogs he can study.
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