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...nether region. Still, the majority of the prank calls are like “Pet Cobra,” a mixture of offensive stereotyping (in this case a man with an over-the-top Indian accent who’s bitten by his cobra while charming it with a flute) and an overall difficulty and aggression...
...Daughters” starts out with potentially awesome-sounding Nintendo tracking, the boring song structures and hipster vocals fail to move anywhere. The song “X-Polynation” shows the potential to be a people-mover with its initial driving beat and idiosyncratically spastic flute, but crashes down as the band takes a trip to New York with their generic imitation-Rapture-or-other-New-York-Hipster-Band vocals; the mediocre rock tune, “Collect the Diamonds” is annoying way past the initial irritating line in which a DC band sings about people...
When playing or performing, the band switches around not only people but instruments—they all play one or more of the following: keyboard harmonica, megaphone, Reason 2.5 (beat synthesizer), keyboard, analog flute, mandolin, guitar, bass and assorted electronic sounds. Somewhere in there, the band members fit in largely improvised lyrics. The Elegant Touch claims that their main goal is to show everyone else how easy it is to start a band; as Ellingson says, “Even people with no talent can rock a crowd...
...point, he interrupts our conversation to speak with a passing police officer: “You know the guy with the flute, he was causing trouble. Someone’s going to get hurt, the tourists, they don’t know.” Officer Bonilla agrees, “Yeah, we have had some other complaints about him.” Spending the majority of his days staked out in front of ABP, Stepak has a far more than passing familiarity with the goings on of his corner of Harvard Square...
...procedure that selectively disables (or silences) individual genes. Once a specific gene--in a mouse, for example--has been silenced, researchers can determine that gene's function by the effect its silence has on the rest of the organism. It's kind of like isolating the role a single flute plays in a symphony by eliminating all the flutist's notes from the score. Pharmaceutical firms can use the information gleaned from gene silencing to design more-effective drugs. Thanks to the funding and freedom Echeverri and his two collaborators, Anthony Hyman and Pierre Gonczy, have received, Cenix...