Word: machinatione
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“[The ribosome is] the catalytic core of the cell,” said Michael C. Jewett, a research fellow who worked with Church. “The advantage of building them [in a lab] is that you can manipulate the system directly. It’s like...
“When you’re reviewed for full professor, they’re supposed to look at your entire career, not just two years of it,” Vaux said. “This was [Jasanoff’s] machination to break up my career into...
If retrospect illuminates the book's design, it obscures its ostensible subject. "This is a Degas we do not know well," Benfey notes of the not yet very famous man who stayed with the Mussons, and Benfey does not help us know this Degas any better. What Benfey instead introduces...
On one level, the vote was simply the latest machination in Michigan tax politics, which resembles nothing so much as a billion-dollar game of chicken. Engler, a Republican, won the governorship in 1990 by less than 1% after promising in the campaign to cut property taxes 20%. His attempts...
Carefully, constructedly cool, Quartett takes the complex, bulky plot of the novel and pares it down to two actors who alternate personalities and sexes with cheerless machination in a game of sex and vengeance. Winsome Brown as the Marchioness, Merteuil, plays her role with bloodthirsty relish. Her obvious confidence and...