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...Gikow never works from a model. When she did in the early days, she found that she was so afraid of hurting the model's feelings that the truth was never there. Instead, she works from memory, using oil so thinned by turpentine that her canvases seem almost fluid. Her blurred edges perform a double duty. They not only make the figure seem able to move, but they also bathe it in the timeless haze of things seen long ago and never forgotten...
After the guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor. Then there were Schumann's fluid Adagio and Allegro and five Concert Pieces by Couperin. As an encore, Casals played his own arrangement-virtually his theme song-of the Catalan melody, Chant of the Birds...
Each of the paired cannons, he found, has glands that discharge a fluid into a saclike reservoir. Using his best microtechniques, Dr. Schildknecht next analyzed the fluid and found to his amazement that it was about 10% hydroquinone and toluhydroquinone (acrid compounds related to carbolic acid) and 23% hydrogen peroxide. When mixed in a test tube these chemicals reacted spontaneously, giving off copious gas, but something still unknown keeps them from reacting as long as they lie undisturbed in the beetle's ammunition sacs...
After it pokes out its cannon to meet threatening danger, the bombardier simply opens an internal valve and forces some of the stored fluid into a small, strong-walled combustion chamber, where it is "ignited" by enzymes from glands lining the chamber. The peroxide quickly decomposes, giving off oxygen gas at considerable pressure-and shooting out of the cannon a loud, offensive discharge that makes the bombardier the insect kingdom's biggest...
Enders tried again. Drs. Alice Woodruff and Ernest Goodpasture of Vanderbilt University had recently given virology (and vaccination) a big boost with the discovery that some viruses grow well in incubating eggs. Enders put fluid from a measles patient into eggs, but had no luck. Searching for a better medium, he turned his attention to embryonic tissue culture, sensing that growing viruses in live cells-the technique that Harrison pioneered-held unrealized possibilities...