Word: type
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Bursting Bacteria. In an equally complex experiment with the same type of bacteria cells, Harvard Molecular Biologist Mark Ptashne discovered a second represser - a smaller protein molecule that prevents the bacteria from bursting when they are attacked by viruses. Ptashne's experiment also indicated that the represser turned off the appropriate cell genes by binding itself tightly to them, somehow preventing the production of an enzyme in the process...
...collection of renaissance, baroque, and contemporary music, and the performance showed an excellent grasp of several styles of 20th century music. But the first half of the program, devoted to early music, was less successful, in part because of the simple unwieldiness of such a large chorus for this type of music...
...Helena are well-bred, stiff, a little nervous -- they'll have an aura of vestal virginity about them forever. But Emily Sisson (Alison) played a trembly faun while Tracy Goss. (Helena) played a la-de-dah matron. So at the end we concentrated on an antique question: which type woman will Jimmy wind up with? Instead we should be watching Jimmy's final gesture of abandon...
...several centuries after Gutenburg's invention of movable type, Western society was tyrannized by the printed word, the book, and therefore the eye. For the book-oriented man, the relevant question is not whether he sees beyond his nose, but whether he knows beyond what he sees. We have been trained by our books to look, not to listen or to feel. And seeing imposes a very different perspective from hearing or touching. The eye can only move in straight lines, taking in one word or one idea at a time. The railroad, like the eye, moves in a direct...
There is almost no text. McLuhan relies on aphorisms, unusual type faces, and impossible lay-outs to put his ideas across. Much like television, which the book strongly resembles in shape, it requires a great deal of participation. Passages printed upside down or inside-out force the reader to become involved. Many of the pictures at first seem incomprehensible. Only if the reader participates-to a degree he would never participate in a conventional book-is he likely to recognize, for example, the grotesque blow-up of a human foot which covers five full pages...