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With Biochemist David Gutnick, Rosenberg isolated a genus of bacteria called arthrobacter, which feast on crude oil, and then developed a particularly fast-multiplying new strain, which they named "RAG-1."* Bred in salt water enriched with phosphorus and nitrogen compounds, the strain gobbles up the paraffin (waxy) content of crude oil, leaving only small droplets of dewaxed oil that break down quickly in nature and become harmless carbon dioxide and water...
Seott Joplin: The Red Back Book (New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Gunther Schuller conducting. Angel; $5.98). Rag is essentially piano music, but in Scott Joplin's heyday (1897-1917) many of his most popular rags were orchestrated for marching, singing, dancing and just plain strutting. The orchestrations, New Orleans in style (squeaky clarinets and feisty trumpets), make good listening too. Indeed there is not a pianist around these days who-so far, at least-can match the cascading joy of these performances...
...face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty tricks. A pair of rag tag charmers, they sometimes earn their keep hawking Bibles to new widows...
...album are its length and range. Both sides combined add up to less than a half hour of music, and none of the songs are triumphs as unusual or moving as Doc Watson's earlier rendition of Gershwin's "Summertime" or as instrumentally demanding as the classic "Black Mountain Rag...
...wasn't your general rag-tag graduate students, pissed-off type meeting," Margaret A. Mills, president of the Graduate Women's Organization, said of the Wednesday session...