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...that viruses caused smallpox, influenza, yellow fever, infantile paralysis, many other human, animal and plant diseases. But since they could neither see nor filter out viruses, scientists assumed that they were living, submicroscopic organisms. In 1935 Stanley showed that a pure strain of virus could be crystallized-consisted of lifeless molecules with the curious, lifelike power of reproducing themselves. This discovery closed the mysterious gap between living and inert matter, indicated no essential distinction except relative complexity of structure between atom, molecule, virus, cell and multicellular organism such...
...corny, nobody plays that way any more. Give me the Andrews Sisters!" Well, there's a lot of truth that. Very few bands play the way Jimmy McPartland plays today, and more's the pity. Certainly it's an old-fashioned style; and if you prefer the stereotyped, lifeless riff tunes of Glenn Miller, Les Brown, and Artie Shaw, that's your prerogative. Me, I'll take the old stuff, and if you're on my side, you'll do well to go down to Nick's, for there you'll find the best living example of what is generally...
...being a far greater sensitivity to the melodic potentialities of his instrument. The result is that Hall plays the best hot music you can hear on clarinet these days. Every note is a rhythmic best, hard and staccato, a method of playing which can pick up even the most lifeless of bands and make them really kick. Yet at the same time he never forgets his own musical ideas, and expresses them with a spontaneity which can be awfully refreshing after listening to Artie Shaw choruses, which are executed with a clever facility, but completely lacking in any sort...
...personality. In Morning Glory and Little Women, which capped her early Hollywood success, she was full of the eager, well-bred enthusiasm she absorbed in a free-thinking but socially impeccable Hartford, Conn, family. Then in two dreary cinemadapted James Barrie plays, she slid into interpretations as heavy and lifeless as plum duff. Two years ago, she and Hollywood called it quits...
...tone is there from the start when Gaudio's camera looks on the lifeless landscape of the rubber plantation. Moving slowly, it picks up the dripping of tapped rubber trees, a thatched hut filled with sleeping natives, another hut hung with drying rubber strips, glides beside a fence to where a pigeon is drowsing. The silence is heavy with long, sharp shadows. Suddenly a shot splits the still air, the pigeon flaps off, a figure staggers onto the porch of a house in the background...