Word: dapping
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...film focuses on the clash between different factions on campus. Antiapartheid activist Vaughn "Dap" Dunlap (Larry Fishburne) is trying to incite Mission to divest. His fight brings him into conflict with Julian "Big Brother Almighty" Eaves (Giancarlo Esposito) leader of the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity, who condemns Dap and his "fellas" for their "African mumbo-jumbo...
...pride in their heritage and the women let their hair grow naturally. Most of this conflict is acted out in a series of catfights between the Gamma Phi women, the Gamma Rays, led by the blond-haired, green-eyed Jane Toussaint (Tisha Campbell) and the Jigaboo women, led by Dap's girfriend Rachel Meadows (Kyme...
...flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary that is distributing his current $6 million movie. Reason: Lee's lead character was named Slice, which happens to be a brand of soft drink produced by rival Pepsi-Cola. The director reluctantly changed the character's name to Dap...
...coli under control. The microbes must be able to manufacture a protective membrane; without such an outer coat they would swell and burst during normal growth. To keep them from manufacturing a complete coat, Curtiss created an E. coli with a defect in a gene that makes diaminopimelic acid (DAP), an important ingredient of the membrane. The defect made the bugs dependent for their survival upon DAP supplied by scientists...
Unfortunately, the defect proved insufficient. Some of the descendants of the new microbe mutated naturally and began manufacturing their own DAP. So Curtiss went a step further and deleted another gene involved in DAP production. These newly designed bugs remained DAPless. But more frustration awaited Curtiss: the mutants managed to survive and multiply even without DAP. How? Dennis Pereira, a graduate student who worked with Curtiss on the project, discovered that they were producing a sticky substance called colanic acid that held them together in the absence of their normal outer coat. By manipulating still another of the microbe...