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...constantly reminding her sons that “things will always work out in the end.”The plot involves numerous commonplace elements—a cheating spouse, a soul-searching roadtrip, a quest for love, a mid-life crisis. Even the setting evokes a certain familiarity: 1950s romanticism, a jazz soundtrack, pastel cardigans, and a preponderance of dinner parties. But surprisingly, the film transcends the clichés it employs by the grace of excellent acting and surprising directorial choices. Renée Zellweger makes a convincing heroine. At 40, she has proven she can play...
...painstakingly acquired collection of vintage clothing, ranging from the 1880s to the 1980s and dry cleaned and mended by Goldhagen herself that will certainly keep the business afloat. “I have no life,” Goldhagen jokes, explaining that she often sews quality buttons onto 1950s garments simply because the era produced shoddy originals. The steady stream of compliments from customers proves that her work does not go unnoticed. “This store is phenomenal,” a shopper cooed breathily upon entering.Echoing Calderin’s notion that the Boston shopper resists flash...
...Lampoon’s first Jewish editors got in a fight with his advisers during the 1950s. The subsequently threatened to have him ad-boarded and expelled. The writer retreated to the castle where he sat holed up with textbooks studying for days (unclear why the need for textbooks). After spending several days in isolation, the writer went to a pet-store to buy 15 rabid dogs. He then went to Lamont Library where he proceeded to paint the book-cases with meat sauce. While the writer chatted up the guard, a friend of his entered the library with...
Remove the gossypol, however, and you'd have a cheap and abundant form of protein for everyone. But get rid of all the gossypol, as plant breeders did in the 1950s, and insects will devour the defenseless cotton. Enter Keerti Rathore, a professor at Texas A&M University, who found a way around the problem through genetic engineering. In new field-trial data, Rathore's team demonstrated that it can turn off the genes that stimulate the production of gossypol in the cottonseeds while the rest of the plant keeps its natural defenses. "This research potentially opens the door...
Watson, best known for his groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, began his career as a student of zoology, but later switched to the budding field of genetic biology in the early 1950s, after finding ecology “not very intellectually demanding...