Judging from a weekend spent careening over the linguine-like strands of asphalt strung across the Catskills mountain range of New York, the enthusiasm does not seem misplaced.
To commemorate this year's festival, Caroline Scheufele, the artistic director and co-president of Chopard, designed a collection of 65 one-of-a-kind pieces — standouts include an apple ring, a floral cuff and a double strand of pearls strung with a single bejeweled seal — focusing on a saturated palette of amethysts, kunzites, rubies and sapphires.
The big breakthrough came two weeks ago, when I was reflecting on how one night, while I was sound asleep, a youthful gang of bikers roared maddeningly by my window for the umpteenth time, but on this occasion, instead of envisioning a strand of piano wire strung at neck height, I invited the bikers into my dreams, ushering them in as neglected and needy youngsters.
A veritable symphony of strings, folk-style.
He picked up a strand of amber beads loosely strung on a red silk thread and started pushing them to one side.
In the window were baubles like a "lumps of coal" necklace, a delicate strand of silver strung with chunks of black tourmaline (90 dollars).
In one of Mr. Zare's most memorable effects, the pianist Peter Basquin pulled a strand of magnetic tape across the piano strings, creating an eerie whine over whispering strings and purring cymbal rolls.
"It's basically making necklaces out of strands of licorice and stringing different kinds of candy along them, like Life Savers and Froot Loops, or pretzels," Ms. Greenfield said.
The bun is crammed with a thick layer of ripe avocado topped with equally thick slabs of cloud-white fresh panela cheese, then mounded with a sizzling filling and finally topped with a few fine strands of red onion, optional shredded string cheese, a fresh herb garnish and thick slices of roasted red jalapeno or a tonsil-torching chipotle chile puree, which the timid may order on the side.
For a dip net, you will want to cut the strands to 1' longer than twice your desired net length, i.e. for a 2' net, the strands should be 5' long, and another set of strings that are 10% longer than the finished circumference, one string for each inch of finished length.
In strand sequencing, an entire string of DNA passes intact through a tiny hole created by an engineered protein, or nanopore, in a cell membrane.
