At 42, Mr. Chandler has had a career distinguished by few roles that are as well conceived (or as fundamentally unembarrassing) as this one.

The phenomenon, nevertheless, is probably greatly underreported, because to my knowledge no one has searched methodically—using suitable nuclear genetic markers—for vertebrate polyembryos in nature.

Pre-cancer, I always wanted to be a little more bad ass.

His breathing was fitful.