"It was like I discovered a parallel universe, and Bob was the tour guide," Mr. Iglauer said.
At the end of each scene, the reader can "flip" the stage around by turning the page, and discover a parallel (and silent) revenge tragedy being played out backstage.
A keyboardist in Deep Purple star Ian Gillan's band in the 1970s, Towns blossomed into a successful TV and movie composer, and discovered a parallel life as a jazz original who has created some of the most audaciously original big-band music since Gil Evans.
Yearning, swooning, sinuous camera movements bring us into the city one sunny morning; the director's signature rectilinear compositions and dreamlike zooms, and his disclosure of bizarre and exotic people on every streetcorner, create a city which is at once familiar and utterly alien, as if he had discovered a parallel Rome on another planet.
This powerhouse franchise about a group of kids who discover a parallel universe plaguing their small town became an overnight phenomenon largely due to word of mouth.
Within these volumes many of which predate the books of the New Testament Biblical experts discovered a parallel but radically different telling of the life of Jesus, one that places the anointing ceremony squarely at the center of Christianity.
And you find that almost every pop star has recorded a Christmas song: U2, Billy Joel, David Bowie... it's like lifting a stone and discovering an entire parallel universe out there.
In the third episode, Nancy kicks into a higher gear, and so does the show, when she discovers that there's a parallel universe of pot distribution out there — the shops that sprang up to dispense medical marijuana after the passage of California's Proposition 215, in 1996 — and that it's taking customers away from her.
We describe a de novo designed peptide that was discovered to switch between a parallel symmetric pentamer at pH 8 and a trimer of antiparallel dimers at pH 6.
