Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acid Critic...
LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Francoise Gilot. Acid oozes from the pen of a discarded mistress who, in nine years with Picasso, served as his model and the mother of two children, only slowly realizing the real role she played in the life of the man who was fond of proclaiming: "As far as I am concerned, there are two kinds of women-goddesses and doormats." Mile. Gilot's account of the master's views on art-his and others'-is illuminating, but best of all are the tart portraits of a monumental ego, made more devastating...
...University of California. Starting with viruses that infect bacteria, Dr. Dulbecco went on to show the mechanism by which polyoma virus, which causes many animal cancers, infects cells. Most important was the striking and unexpected finding that the virus itself, which has a nucleus of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), does not need to multiply in order to cause cancer...
...Rubin, once a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Dulbecco's lab, worked with viruses that cause leukemia in fowl and have a nucleus consisting of ribonucleic acid (RNA). The work of these men, said the awards committee, "promises to contribute decisively to our eventual understanding of the nature of cancer...
...courtship of Franchise, Picasso didn't show her his etchings-he showed her how to etch. Since she was a full 40 years younger than he, she had to pass acid-test encounters with Gertrude Stein, Braque, Matisse, Cocteau, and a dozen other greats before she could share his life. Yet, judging from her memoirs, crammed with incredible recall, she was a cool creature who passed the tests but, instead of sharing his life, only came to understand...