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...exist in full, down to the subtlest wrinkle of a foot sole or the snug arc of a toenail. These refinements, needless to say, are quite invisible from down below. Why did the artist bother? In one of his sonnets, he exclaims, 'My soul can find no stair on which to climb to heaven, unless it be earth's loveliness...
Three-Letter Words. It was Watson and Crick who clarified the nature of the genetic code. They demonstrated that each stair of the double helix consists of a pair of chemical compounds called nucleotides. There are only four different kinds of nucleotides in DNA, but the order in which they appear along the length of the helix varies considerably, suggesting that they are arranged in a coded sequence. To be able to call up one of the 20 different amino acids using only four nucleotide "letters," scientists decided, each genetic code "word" has to be three letters long...
Another school of architects feels that a building ought to tell what is going on beneath its skin. The antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing?and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces. With its fortress style, the Boston city hall states another simple truth: that city governments are under constant attack...
WHICH is not to say the production lacks a sense of designed visual coherence. Although the settings themselves (for which no program credit is provided) are neither beautiful, flexible, nor functional--consisting largely of sliding stair units and walls bearing faded and indifferently rendered Egyptian wall motifs--the use Chapman makes of them is bold and consistent. Given an almost unnaturally broad and shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly...
...death-and I don't know what it all means. I spent a lot of time in high school throwing myself over stair railings...