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...their experiments, scientists had learned that the message of heredity is carried by large molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the chromosomes. Researchers had deduced that somehow DNA directs the cells to assemble amino acids into the proteins that form the basic structural material of all living beings and impart their characteristics. Then, in 1953, James Watson (author of The Double Helix] and Francis Crick put together more of the puzzle; they discovered that DNA consists of twin helices that are held together by regularly spaced links similar to the stairs of a spiral staircase...
...worked as a cabaret star. Stepping gingerly then proudly to the music, swinging into half-remembered bumps in her pink spotlight, Karnilova's Hortense becomes a wilted flower--a honeyed symbol of forgotten dreams. It's enough to make the audience forget that Miss Karnilova hardly bothers to impart the fact that her character is French...
...search to find something nice to say about the South, the North has cooked up the first Southern Myth, the dream of Southern Hospitality. This is a pleasant vision, made of equal parts of mint julep, placid plantations, charming belles, and singing darkies. Revelled in long enough, it can impart a kind of Mark Twain air to any town south of Minneapolis...
...edited into an "instant special," which went on at 9:30 p.m. local time. The opening night's 90 minutes, for example, were culled from some 24 hours of film and videotape. In general ABC's unconventional coverage did not evoke the flavor of the convention or impart any sense of urgency. And on the two balloting nights, of course, ABC had no choice but to go overtime. Still, the ABC experiment cut to the very nature of the TV medium. Unlike print, television does not lend itself readily to organizing, tabulating and editing. In trying to substitute...
...greatest failing, however, has been in the art of communicating. "Language may be the most important tool that a President has for governing this sprawling nation," says Sidey, and while Johnson is superbly versed in the arcane language of cloakroom and corridor, he has never learned how to impart his visions for a better America to the people...