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...frazzling electronic music. Rather than standing on its own, it functions as an element in a mind-blowing fantasy of give-and-take with visual phenomena; the eerie amplified sounds absorb logic from their surroundings, lend drama to the enveloping space, and force the observer to fuse eye and ear into one receptive organ...
...bacterium or a chemical) reaches the side of a cell and is sucked in, sealed off by a piece of the cell's own membrane. Standing by inside the cell is a lysosome, packed with enzymes. Lysosome and invader, now packaged in a phagosome, are drawn together and fuse. In the resulting sac, called a vacuole, the foreign substance is digested...
...someone else gets it.* For one thing, they keep too busy to think about prizes and such. In Manhattan, Lynn gets a thorough workout eight times a week in Black Comedy. Her role calls for some adroit tricks, since the action takes place in a house where the light fuse has blown. To let the audience see what is happening, the stage lights are actually turned on, and the performers have to act as though they are in the dark. Lynn's butter-legged climb up and down the stairs, the way she pours drinks to overflowing, and her well...
...hinterlands know that the risks are real, the roads terrible, the living facilities primitive and the performing areas a nightmare. Many of them use taped accompaniments rather than Vietnamese sidemen (who somehow cannot get with the Stateside beat), so one of the more common perils is the blown fuse. But many performers do go, and not only for the pay and the experience. Says Jan Brinker: "We're here for the money, but we also feel an obligation to do what we can for the men out here...
...Three major steel companies-Dorman Long, South Durham Steel and Iron, and Stewarts and Lloyds-agreed to fuse into a group that will rival the new steel titans on the Continent, be capable of producing a quarter of Britain's steel needs. The merger was prompted by the demand for pipe created by newly found North Sea gas. Short of pipe capacity, Stewarts and Lloyds and South Durham plan to use Dorman Long's new plate plant at Lackenby as a source of supply. Since that is just the kind of resource pooling that the nationalization-bent government...