Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James Earl Ray will face his final judgment without ever getting his day in court. Ray, 70, died this morning of complications arising from cirrhosis of the liver, proclaiming to the end his innocence in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King family was Ray?s most powerful ally in his quest to reopen the case -- only last week Coretta Scott King and Dexter King met with Attorney General Janet Reno to press for a review of the evidence...
...album, and not just because it opens with an ambitious but maudlin version of Eleanor Rigby (is there such a thing as a non-maudlin Eleanor Rigby? Could one even be possible given the known laws of art?). Recorded with the pianist Kenny Barron and his regular rhythm section (Ray Drummond on bass and Ben Riley on drums), this is such a simple, straight-ahead shot of vocal jazz that it could have been made 40 years ago, and yet it couldn't sound newer. This may be the most vital album you'll hear this year, coursing with...
These moments shed light on the whole play, and are far better than the Twins' turn at exegesis (Jorge Rodriguez and Ray Courtney, scene eleven), which came close to coherence. Another wacky moment in the that-almost-made-sense category was scene ten, "It Saw Charles Bernstein Suspended in a Shimmering Column of Light." Not only does this allow for surefire alien-abduction topos, but it gives Marler a chance to shine as he who laments the paucity of men who "can tell a parastatis from a syntagma...
...techniques of choice for this sort of cartography are x-ray crystallography and protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), which take a snapshot of a protein at a resolution of less than a billionth of a meter...
...ray crystallography allows us to map out the atom-by-atom three-dimensional structure of a drug target, [especially] the active site," says Brum. "The more precise information we can have about the active site helps us to develop a safer, more potent drug...