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...Ants on the Melon (Random House). Virginia Hamilton Adair's first book of poetry is one of the year's imaginative peaks. The 87 poems by this 83-year-old poet are short--the longest runs to 52 lines--and as richly terse as haiku. But the many themes addressed in this collection--life and love and loss--are clear and capacious, a distillation of life into a perfect ordering of words...
...Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House). In the second volume of his biography, John Richardson applies his skills as storyteller and art historian to a prodigious decade in Picasso's life. At the beginning a still struggling Spanish artist in Paris, he was by the end truly Picasso, a co-founder of Cubism and perhaps modern art's paradigmatic figure. Richardson presents a behind-the-scenes look at an apotheosis...
Every day, Americans are belting out more of these ready-made, media-marinated catchphrases, usually of the in-your-face (to use another) variety. Conversations, movies, E-mail, ads, lovers' quarrels, punditry and stand-up comedy can barely be conducted without resort to an annoyingly popular riposte. A random gleaning, from just one Cybill episode on CBS, produced: Hel-lo-oh!; Oh, pulleeze; Get a life; Yadda yadda; Yesss! and Haven't we had enough...
...looking at the structures and positions of exons and introns, Gilbert found that introns, and exons line up in a non-random way in the DNA of most living things, both primitive and modern...
Gilbert hoped to convince fellow scientists that introns--inactive DNA segments--made genes susceptible to a type of DNA recombination that randomly reshuffled exons, or active DNA segments. Gilbert believed that random reshuffling weakens the gene and lessens its chance for survival...