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...scale. The collection appears electric, a higgledy-piggledy romp through an era of artistic flux and diversity. The viewer does not find Danish painting surprisingly good or bad; he gleans no insight into the Danish national character; he observes no quintessentially Danish traits--in short, he detects no common thread uniting the canvases beyond the passports of the authors...
...French Anderson looks at the same clear liquid and sees not a library but a pharmacy. Anderson's goal, his obsession, is to find the wonder drugs hidden in that test tube. Someday, he says, doctors will simply diagnose their patients' illnesses, give them the proper snippets of molecular thread and send them home cured...
...This thread of life, of course, is deoxyribonucleic acid, the spiral- staircase-shape molecule found in the nucleus of cells. Scientists have known since 1952 that DNA is the basic stuff of heredity. They've known its chemical structure since 1953. They know that human DNA acts like a biological computer program some 3 billion bits long that spells out the instructions for making proteins, the basic building blocks of life...
...scars which will take longer to heal, or may be as permanent and insidious as the evil which caused them. It's lucky for them that they have not only each other, but also some good stories to tell. Ironically, it is Zenia who ends up as the unifying thread of their experience. This Robber-Bridegroom, in the shape of a svelte Bluebeard in drag, may be the most delectably detestable character in any novel this year. And that in itself is not a wholly evil thing...
Until now, discerning a common thread in Bill Clinton's foreign policy has been a futile exercise. Suddenly, though, a familiar coherence is emerging. Image and impulse no longer seem to guide policy, and Clinton, like his Republican predecessors, appears to have finally decided that he loathes repression less than he loves commerce...