Word: revelation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...menacing form depicted in this dramatic photograph is not some giant glob of man-eating protoplasm from a science-fiction film. It is actually a hamster's kidney cell magnified 15,000 times by a scanning electron microscope. Such scientific snapshots taken by Caltech Biologist Jean-Paul Revel may offer an important clue to a mystery that has long puzzled scientists: how a living cell moves across a surface. The cell's perambulations, Revel says, are apparently made possible by a strange phenomenon called "ruffling...
According to Revel's interpretation of the photos, the cell sprouts thin, veil-like folds along its forward edge-that is, in the direction of movement. These folds or ruffles grow upward, extend out like an arm and then drop to the surface, adhering firmly to it. Once the forward edge is anchored, the cell flows into and over the ruffles, almost as if it were pulling itself along. As the body of the cell moves over the folds, other ruffles grow along the cell's new leading edge, and in turn attach themselves to the surface. Thus...
...this set. Kubelik's surging way with the music catches its color and drama and seems to belie the uneven moments in some of the early symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic, reduced so often to a static silkiness by its regular leader, Herbert von Karajan, here seems positively to revel in Kubelik's ruddy approach...
...pair continue to take long walks, give parties and revel in private musical soirées with close friends. Back home from the hospital last week, Jackie was busy cooking and puttering. Despite her gloomy prospects, she has been practicing regularly with the determined air of a woman who has merely taken some time out. Her friends and associates insist that this is literally the case. Says Record Producer and Family Friend Suvi Raj Grubb: "I know the girl. She'll play...
...menage a quatre may have been too limiting for Paulus. From the beginning he had established his independence. On the evening of his wedding to Hannah he went off to revel with a bachelor friend, winding up the night -talking, he said-in a strange girl's room. Tillich acknowledged his "demons," but gave them rather free rein...