Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paint, whether explicitly-as in the Woman series 20 years ago-or by implication, in the fleshy rub and friction of one biomorphic shape against another. His new canvases suggest (not only by their titles) the low, flat landscapes of Long Island: high-keyed pinks and yellows and acid greens, a flicker of noon light, blue heat-haze on the potato fields, a jumble of sun-flushed legs on the sand. With a handful of minor exceptions, De Kooning's paint work manages to avoid the rather flaccid, glutinous and mushy quality it assumed in the middle...
Assuming that antibodies, like most other proteins, are composed of chains of amino acids, Edelman set out to identify the arrangement and composition of the antibody molecules. In 1969, he completed a gamma-globulin model showing the molecule to be made up of 19,996 atoms grouped together in amino-acid building blocks. His findings coincided with those of Porter, showing that the antibody molecule is composed of a double pair of chains, two "light" ones forming the branches of the Y, and two "heavy" ones that make up the trunk. After establishing that antibodies have some flexible amino-acid...
...Center in Los Angeles. They arrested two of its leaders for practicing medicine without a license. Carol Downer, one of the movement's founders, was accused of diagnosing a woman's illness as a vaginal infection and treating it with an application of yogurt (the lactic acid in yogurt is supposed to provide a hostile environment for some organisms; without laboratory tests it is difficult to determine whether the treatment is appropriate). Colleen Wilson was charged with performing a menstrual extraction, or preemptive abortion (TIME, Sept. 11), pelvic examinations and pregnancy tests...
...appetizing ingredients. Federal law allows hot dogs to contain such animal features as esophagi, ears, lips and snouts. In the words of Robert Benchley: "Ain't it offal?" And even these ingredients do not exhaust the bad news. Hot dogs are brimming with additives, including sodium nitrite, sodium acid pyrophosphate and glucona delta lactone. Without such chemicals, the hot dog would lose its pink blush and turn the color of unwashed sneakers. The wiener may also contain "binders," like dried milk, cereal or starchy vegetable flour. According to Consumers Union, there can also be occasional insect parts and rodent...
DAWES IS A GENIUS, half mad probably schizophrenic. He is the first serious representative of the television generation. Instead of quoting lines from books he quotes scenes from moves. But he is no ordinary boob-tube befriending hard, nor is he the acid rock counter-culture stereotype so predominant among his contemporaries in fiction. Mossman reveals this as he carefully describes growing up in Iowa after the war, through the rowdy-but never-un-American fifties and the confusing and almost decadent sixties...