Word: acidity
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...model of clarity. Its expansive, flowing melodies were developed by the chorus, with the soloists assigned more angular parts. Less lofty in style than much of what Hindemith has written recently, it is tautly constructed, as responsive to the text's moods as litmus paper to acid. It is, as Hindemith himself said, a "light, gay piece"-but the gaiety is that of a master...
Tough Picture. When the released dyes reach the surface, they hit a sheet of white paper coated with large, stationary molecules of an acid material. These clutch the dyes as they arrive and form them into a tough, many-colored surface that reproduces the colored image focused by the camera's lens. The picture needs no further treatment. Its blues are sometimes slightly greenish at first, but after a few moments the excess green tint disappears permanently...
...first and people last. Occasionally the actors, trained to the grand grimace in the Japanese theatrical tradition, seem all set to twirl their mustachios and scream: "How now, me proud beauty!" But within his conventions Kurosawa is a realist, and when he does a caricature he does it in acid. The Bad Sleep Well is not quite so strong as his strongest pictures, but it has the vulgar energy, the cutting relevance, the mortal moral seriousness of first-rate journalism...
...structure of many viruses in their conventional forms is well known. They consist of a core of nucleic acid-either ribonucleic acid (RNA) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-wrapped in a protein overcoat. It is in this form that they are most readily detectable. And also, it appears, most active: the naked nucleic acid alone (stripped of its overcoat by delicate chemical means) can produce most of the effects of the whole virus, but it is a thousand times less powerful. Evidently, the researchers suggest, the virus needs to be "carefully packaged for safe transmission." One effective package design is like...
...only a few have the dread power to manufacture the poison that leads to the formation of a dead ly, strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic acid-the core of a virus, which has penetrated the bacterial cell. Why should not human cells become cancerous when a similar fragment of viral nucleic acid gets into their chromosomes and causes them to reproduce abnormally? By this reasoning, viruses have been called "bits of heredity in search of a chromosome...