Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgia O'Keeffe, a plain-spoken lady who looks as severe as her own paintings, played a modest part in the festivities. She stood up when called upon and said: ''This is a gift from Stieglitz. It is for the students of this university. I hope you will go and look at these paintings more than once...
...pleased. He became a vegetarian ("I don't think I could have worked so long on roast beef") and, what was more important, he found a dealer. Cooper's labors, on exhibition in a London gallery last week, inspired a certain amount of automatic writing on the part of British critics. "It may perhaps be taken as a guarantee of ... authenticity," the London Times opined, ". . . that his pictures are extraordinarily minute and precise in execution; they resemble nothing so much as patches of an old wall on which successive layers of wallpaper have mouldered away...
...Police. For 250 years quinine was the only police agent used to control malaria. Swamp drainage and screening of buildings have been added to the force since 1898, when it was shown that malaria parasites (tiny protozoa of the genus Plasmodium) spend part of their life cycle in female Anopheles mosquitoes. The mosquito picks up the parasites from infected humans, nurtures them and injects them into fresh victims. The parasites run through the bloodstream of their victim, causing periodic fevers at the peak of their reproductive cycle; many lodge in the spleen, causing local pain...
...Sleeping Beauty, the Met's huge stage was turned into a fairyland of castles, caves and gardens. For three hours, through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot...
...indicates that even when the transmission stations are permanently damaged, the brain is still capable of receiving and translating electrical impulses artificially applied. Thus, Krieg says, if a certain point at the back of the brain is stimulated, the patient will "see" a flash of light in a precise part of his visual field...