Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most important is the issue of what the Kennedy School should do about the name of its new library. Although school officials have done their best to cut off discussion of the topic, it is clear that the school's decision to honor as notorious a figure as Charles Engelhard is not consistent with the humanitarian principles on which Harvard was presumably founded, and to which it even paid lip service in last spring's Corporation report. Clearly, then, the Kennedy School should return the money to the Charles Engelhard Foundation and rename the library to honor a more deserving...
...MOST UNUSUAL cut on Parallel Lines is Blondie's experimental fling into the progressive electronic music of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, an expansive song called "Fade Away and Radiate." After an eerie flourish on the synthesizer, Harry coos some surrealistic lyrics; with no instruments backing her--only the thud of a bass drum--she toys with the tune, which seems to be in no key at all. Within a minute, though, the band is behind her; and Fripp (formerly of King Crimson) nearly steals the song with a wild, electronically treated guest guitar solo...
...deliberate maliciousness in the pivotal scene with Martha, and her sharp jabbing at her embroidery all the while is a nice touch. Aquino even manages to avoid looking ridiculous in the last scene, where she must indulge in hysterics over Martha's death. Gerber would have done well to cut that last scene, for it drags on and on while recriminations...
...published Weight Watchers Magazine before he launched National Lampoon, has three movies to go on his four-film-minimum contract with Universal Pictures. The bankroller and distributor of Animal House, Universal recouped its initial in vestment a few weeks after the film's opening. National Lampoon's cut of the gross - 5% at first, but now and henceforth 17.5% - translates into $3 million...
Arber theorized that the bacterium produced a "restriction" enzyme that cut the viral DNA into smaller pieces (the host bacterium's DNA is protected from its own chemical scissors by other enzymes). Arber further proposed that the enzymes recognized and acted upon specific sites along the DNA strand...