Word: layering
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...together for rehearsals 14 days before opening. The performance was a superlative success. Under the softly hazy sky of a summer evening in Paris, the dancers spilled and splashed across the stage and the wide staircases. A second-story window in the Louvre, on a level with the top layer of the stage, served both as Juliet's balcony and the entrance to the Capulets' palace. The three-level arrangement provided scope for graceful choreographic invention. In a pas de deux, George Skibine danced the yearning Romeo on the lowest stage while his wife, Marjorie Tallchief, danced Juliet...
...Poliomyelitis viruses for vaccine production can be grown in human afterbirth, which may replace monkey kidneys as the basis of production-line tissue cultures, suggested three University of California researchers. Cells from the inner layer (amnion) of the placenta grow at about the same rate as monkey kidney cells and in the same chemical food baths, reported Elsa M. Zitcer and colleagues. Advantages: less danger of sensitization, and freer supply of placentas, since India is sensitive about continued export of the revered monkeys...
...general, they smelled a tornado when a layer of warm, moist air was covered by a layer of cool, dry air. The wind had to be strong and in the right direction, and the warm air at the surface had to be subject to a strong lifting action. When these conditions (and more subtle ones) coincided, a tornado was likely to lick out from the black center of a cloud...
Last week New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, one of the backers of the search, heard from Dr. Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University. Deep in the same stony layer where Digger Brain had found the tools, Alun R. Hughes and Revill Mason found two teeth of prometheus. Dr. Dart considered the find good evidence that prometheus "was actually coexistent with, and in all probability responsible for, that very primitive stone pebble culture...
...good deal of Giacometti has rubbed off onto the floors and walls of his bare, grey studio. The workbench is encrusted with old paint drippings and scabs of plaster. Cigarette butts cover the cement floor. The walls are acrawl with hasty sketches and doodles. Over all lies a thick layer of grey plaster dust...