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...giving away dishes again like they did in the Depression." Too late. The price war is on, and in Detroit they are giving away dishes, while elsewhere there are "football widows' nights" on Mondays, "early bird" matinees, even free admissions on off days. San Francisco's Strand, for $1.25, offers a triple feature plus bingo. The nearby Regal one-ups it with four pictures for the price...
...photographs that survive from his last years, Piet Mondrian's own head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his spectacle frames, and the thin mouth joined with utmost precision to his beak of a nose by two engraved lines. It was the face of no compromise-austere and possessed by a forbidding moral rectitude. No artist ever looked more like his own work...
Using laboratory skills that were unheard of a generation ago, scientists have isolated, put together and manipulated genes, and have come close to creating life itself. In 1967 Stanford University's Arthur Kornberg synthesized in a test tube a single strand of DNA that was actually able to make a duplicate of itself. Kornberg's "creation" was only a copy of a virus, a coated bit of genetic material that occupies a twilight zone between the living and inanimate. But many scientists have become convinced that they may eventually be able to create functioning, living cells...
...second letter, they described that mechanism: how the DNA molecule unwinds and unzips itself right down the middle during cell division, its base pairs breaking apart at their hydrogen bonds. Then by drawing on the free-floating material surrounding them in the nucleus of the cell, the two separated strands link up with complementary base-and-strand units along their entire length, forming two exact copies of the original double helix. Thus DNA faithfully passes its genetic information on to new cells and to future generations...
Sargent painted a portrait of Belle Gardner that stirred up quite a few waves along the Charles River: Mrs. Jack was pictured with a black dress wrapped quite tightly for a Boston matron, a V-cut neckline with a single strand of pearls reiterating the circular lines of her tiny waist and a single red ruby dropping from the pearls; the portrait was not nearly as risque as others that Sargent was painting at the time, but when Jack Gardner heard the comments about the picture, he forbid its public exhibition. The gossip was that, "Sargent had painted Mrs. Gardner...