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Someone came up with the less-than-brilliant idea of slapping a '50s-retro veneer on all the singers' clothes and gestures. Rigoletto in hat and coat recalls Willy Loman with a hump; Gilda sports a flaring gray poodle-skirt, a bright red cardigan sweater and ponytail tied with a matching red ribbon. The duke, when he comes a-courting, looks sublimely ridiculous in a red monogrammed vest. Even the courtship scene between the duke and Gilda is straight out of the '50s, reminiscent of that porch swing on a summer night--a worthy tradition...
...thirty-year retrospective, the exhibit seems somewhat cramped and a little too casually put together. For lack of space for coat racks, the few viewers line their bags and coats on the floor, beneath the photographs...
...interview was conducted at his high school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Myers wore the coat and tie that was required of male students, and the interviewer assumed he was a male...
...nicknamed "sonic hedgehog" (after the popular video game Sonic the Hedgehog) determines the fate of neurons in the spinal cord and the brain. Like a strong scent carried by the wind, the protein encoded by the hedgehog gene (so called because in its absence, fruit-fly embryos sprout a coat of prickles) diffuses outward from the cells that produce it, becoming fainter and fainter. Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations of this potent morphing factor to produce a motor neuron and lower concentrations to make an interneuron (a cell that relays signals to other...
...team now presents the Zimmerman Award--a plaque and Harvard tie symbolic of the sports coat and tie he wore to each game--at its annual dinner to the team's best free-throw shooter...