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...some kernels, McClintock began finding curious, quirky patterns of pigmentation. A less imaginative scientist might have dismissed them as natural variations occurring at random. But through painstaking record keeping and careful analysis, McClintock discerned a method in nature's seeming madness. The pigment genes, those causing the splotch es of color on the kernels, were somehow being switched off or on in a particular generation. Still more remarkable, the same "switches" often seemed to crop up a generation later at different places along the same chromosome or even on a totally different chromosome. Indeed, these mysterious "controlling elements...
...LANGUAGE OF CLOTHES by Alison Lurie Random House; 273 pages...
South Floridians tend to compare their current woes to such earlier cataclysms street the 1 926 hurricane that devastated Miami or the colossal land failures of the late 1920 that turned millionaires into paupers overnight. The region's present agonies, they argue, are due more to a random run of bad luck than anything that could have been prevented. "The people's attitude is, 'Damn it, I am down here to avoid problems, not have them,' " says Governor Bob Graham, a Dade County native. " 'Now I have them.' How do you deal with these issues in a political climate that...
...seem to remember, very little in this world ever turns out to be precisely what it seems to be. Michael (Paul Newman) is an independent cuss, all right, but no crook. And Megan (Sally Field) is not so crazily ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom just before Inauguration. Indeed, throughout the film...
...Britain, too, the gourmet must be willing to travel. Great British Cooking: A Well-Kept Secret (Random House; $15.50) somewhat exaggerates the paucity of three-star menus in the scept'red isle. It is no longer quite true, as the old saw had it, that the English have only three vegetables, two of them cabbage. However, English-born Jane Garmey roams far and wide to bag the better culinary hand-me-downs. Though a number of great Continental chefs left their imprint on upper-class English fare-Carême, Escoffier, Francatelli and Soyer all lived for years...