For those of us who associate ferns with the banks of cool, shady brooks lined by thick, loamy soil, the graceful little spleenwort comes as a surprise, growing on a hot, dry wall where finding a cactus might seem more likely.
As I spoke Brooks's lines, I saw people among the many milling tourists and inaugural-goers on the Mall stop and listen to her arresting words, cast in the shape of a poem.
Entire parts of Scorpio's dialogue, such as his hammock speech, are Brooks's lines and not the writers'.
With the ball on the Ram's 47-yard line, Brooks found Jackson along the right sideline.
Here she recited Brooks's familiar line: "Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind".
Then Brooks sliced a line drive to right-center, and Swoboda came thundering in, not quite the bumbler he had been a few years earlier.
Lewis has again written to Cameron to ask whether he received any advice from the cabinet secretary as to whether his meeting with Brooks was in line with the ministerial code.
"Obviously there's the tragedy of the diagnosis, but emblazoning this on the front page of the Sun is not helping, is it?" Brooks held her line: "Should I put it back to you that if the Browns had asked me not to run it, I wouldn't have done..
Mr Brooks claims the line upgrade has acted as a catalyst for urban regeneration.
This drew a clear battle line: Brooks fans were yokels, they complained, and that so many of them were going in July was embarrassing to a country which – I felt – had much more to be embarrassed about than liking a fat guy in a cowboy hat.
Two cell lines were used: (1) MCF-7, an adherent human breast cancer cell line (Brooks et al, 1973) and (2) HB-94, a nonadherent mouse B-lymphoid cell line (Brodsky and Parham, 1982) (ATCC, Rockville, MD, USA).
