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...naming the shapes and knowing precisely how they are formed are two different things. Proteins twist and pleat themselves as they're synthesized. These basic forms are then further folded and linked to other proteins to create the uberstructures crucial to protein chemistry. Scientists traditionally dissect the atomic details of these folds by observing how crystallized proteins scatter X rays--experiments that can take years to complete. But robots and powerful X-ray generators have lately boosted the pace of discovery. Structures that two decades ago would have taken a couple of researchers 10 years to crack...
...hilarious Broadway debut, the self-dubbed dame sings a bit and muses about her family (Mum's in a "maximum-security twilight home"), but mostly she chats with the audience--or picks on it (though "caringly"). Humphries, a gloriously gaudy "megastar," has timing as sharp as a knife pleat...
...daggers at the press and at her husband's campaign handlers, denouncing such ignominies as their alleged refusal to serve food on charter flights, which caused her to lose "14 pounds in one week." She became "so thin," she said, that "my skirt would move around and my kick pleat would end up in the front, because there was nothing to hold it . . . It was just awful...
...century -- that the pastoral mode was harder to decipher than religious or historical painting. There is not much narrative precision in Watteau's fetes galantes: these little societies of the elect, privileged folk in their shining taffetas are not exactly allegories; they are elaborations of mood, in which every pleat of fabric on a woman's turned back seems to carry its aura of psychological subtlety. And in Giorgione's Tempest, to this day no one really knows what the nude woman, young soldier and lightning flash are doing there...
...mysterious death of anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood on November 13, 1974. The film carefully weaves together Silkwood's sheltered life as a technician at a nuclear power plant, her relationships with her boyfriend, lesbian roommate, and fellow workers, and her burgeoning disgruntlement with the safety conditions of the pleat...