Like a chick-lit version of Tom Perrotta's "Little Children," Ms. Adams's debut novel chronicles the action among stay-at-home types.
The curtained backdrop, with a blaring, bulb-lit version of her signature in the centre, mirrored the ambiance of a fairy-tale teenage girl's bedroom, but the singer's mood often seemed the precise opposite of her surroundings.
Here is a better-lit version of the KR1 in action.
The device was announced less than a week after a report that Amazon was working on a front-lit version of its Kindle e-reader.
Even now — especially now — Murray's book can feel like a lit-crit version of Spaceship Earth, the ride that chugs its way through the giant golf ball at the center of Epcot, depicting the history of communication as one unbroken, magnificent story that begins with cave paintings and extends through Steve Jobs.
Seeking a safer alternative to "live" candles (which had already resulted in many domestic fires), a gas-lit, cast-iron version was devised: "The Improved German Christmas Tree", complete with hissing blue flames – more like an overgrown oven than a festive installation.
The research, conducted by Melissa J. Kaminski and Robert G. Magee, involved giving 150 college-age women excerpts from two popular chick-lit novels, one version altered by the researchers, and rating how they felt about themselves after reading them.
The worst reaction, she says, is when people dismiss it as a show for women, the TV version of chick lit.
The lyrics were written by vocalist Bono, describing two characters in a brightly lit city in a futuristic version of European society.
*Geed: Australian version of turnt up... cc : Lit .
Raw data files from nLC-ESI-LIT-MS/MS experiments were searched with MASCOT software package version 2.2.06 (Matrix Science, London, UK) against an updated Mammalia non-redundant sequence database (UniProt 2010/12).
