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...flatulent beasts, which must have seemed capricious and vulgar to all but his best friends. Yet, says Grigson, Fuseli and Mortimer "drank to different depths out of the same brew and looked together into the abyss. Mortimer [like Fuseli] wildly, demoniacally, lit up, the eyes, accentuated them in shade, filled them with the gleam of interior flame and power...
...series of these curves taken from successive slices of the image can be turned into patterns of light and shade, and built into a picture in ultraviolet of the still-healthy cells. But Dr. Barer is after bigger game. The curves show how much of the ultraviolet is absorbed by each region in the cell. These figures, in turn, give a strong hint of what chemicals are present in each of the cell's parts. Dr. Barer hopes that his apparatus will allow biologists to watch fragile, transparent cells as they live their normal lives and to chart...
...Shade More Southern...
...travel would have revealed that Susquehanna lies southwest of Wilmington, across the frontier of Delaware, in a state that at first glance would appear to be Maryland. This state (whose name escapes me) borders on Delaware for some 100 miles ... In character, speech, and appetites, its inhabitants are a shade more southern than Delaware's, which doubtless accounts for the differences your reviewer noted between my Barons and Delaware's Du Ponts...
...Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street-corner best. The Martyr, anti-Communist Farrell's dissection of what a U.S. Communist writer is up against when he tries to shade the party line, comes as close as anything in recent fiction to making homegrown intellectual Reds human in their fears, fallacies and betrayals...