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...feast fit for the spirit of Dr. Johnson. Beef Wellington and rich claret. Candles flickering on the tables and casting reflections on the dark mahogany paneling. Flowery remarks by Sir Peter Ramsbotham, British Ambassador to the U.S., and Kingman Brewster, president of Yale and the newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. More than 800 distinguished guests, including the directors of London's Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum plus multimillionaire Art Collector Paul Mellon...
...Moreno is an animated delight as the amorous prey of a slickly narcissistic cad (Laurence Guittard). and George Rose lends his customary authoritative presence to the role of the autocratic shop owner with a heart of fudge. As for Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, they serve playgoers a song feast in which music is indeed the food of love. T.E.K...
Zeffirelli has an eye for historical detail, and one of his major achievements is to place Jesus solidly within the ethos of 1st century Judaism. At the wedding feast of Mary and Joseph, men perform a chaste dance of celebration. During Jesus' bar mitzvah, Mary gazes with the women from behind the mechitzah (barrier) at the Nazareth synagogue. There are also some deft touches from everyday life. One of the soldiers gripes, "I can hardly wait to get back to Rome," as he ambles down the cemetery path to discover an empty tomb that will change the course...
...strives to make art accessible. There she plans works that are on a large scale (one sculpture planned will be four stories high), but that nonetheless invite rather than repel people. Similarly, the sculptures in this exhibition manage at once to personify music with their rhythmic compositions and to feast your eyes with more substantial fare--knotty wood with the nails and lumbermarks still showing. This self-conscious structure belies the seemingly organic and hence (you might have thought) unconscious "growth" of, say, the bud-like forms at the top of La Primavera. This is a tall square column...
...fact, transfer of DNA between two strains of pneumococcus has been demonstrated in the animal body. Moreover, bacteria in the gut are constantly exposed to fragments of host DNA that are released as the cells lining the gut die, and bacteria growing in carcasses have a veritable feast of DNA. The efficiency of such uptake of mammalian DNA by bacteria is undoubtedly very low. However, because of the extraordinarily large scale of the exposure in nature, recombinants of this general class must have been formed innumerable times over millions of years. They have thus been tested in the crucible...