Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...secret: a digitally controlled chemical molding system that can be operated on site or, via the Internet, from thousands of miles away. Says the peripatetic entrepreneur: "It's like a 3-D fax machine...
...Ingo Potrykus sifted through his fingers did not seem at all special, but that was because they were still encased in their dark, crinkly husks. Once those drab coverings were stripped away and the interiors polished to a glossy sheen, Potrykus and his colleagues would behold the seeds' golden secret. At their core, these grains were not pearly white, as ordinary rice is, but a very pale yellow--courtesy of beta-carotene, the nutrient that serves as a building block for vitamin...
...design of John D. Gordan '01 the lighting done by Ali Ruth Davis '00 conspire to create full and believable scenery that comes as a pleasant surprise in the minimalist space. Changing stalls, bathroom sinks, bookshelves and beds appear and disappear in a flurry of black-jacketed secret service agents...
...Hapgood's action spins around three agents in the British secret service who are trying to determine how classified information from their top-secret particle physics lab is getting back to Moscow. Someone is a double agent and everyone would seem a suspect, though the loveability of the three central characters makes their criminality slightly implausible...
...Hapgood opens with an American secret agent (Mosi Ayindi Secret '01) doing a very basic acting trick; facing the audience, he shaves as if he is looking into a mirror. The perfect pantomime of his toilet hoists the audience into a dramatic enchantment and reminds one of just how far we've sunk in this summer of real-world television. While we can see plenty of people plucking lettuce from their teeth from cameras hidden behind real mirrors, it's really so much better when it's fake. So what if the Cold War is over? See Hapgood and suspend...