Like many Brooklyn real estate projects, the one that sits on land once encircled by the Kings County Penitentiary's prison walls is colored by twisted technicalities and sharp silences.
Ice-sharp, the silence after the vet has given his verdict.
As the challenges to him grew sharper, her silences appeared increasingly statesmanlike.
By Adam Gopnik January 18 , 2010We began in the usual sharp and sardonic silence with which football gets watched around here, weighed down a bit by memories of previous losses — this reporter's son (to sound again like the great Cosell himself) when he was twelve or so, retired to his room after a particularly brutal Pennington era loss.
In the increasingly noisy world, the contrast between everyday buzz and the nearest we ever get to silence is sharp.
There was a sharp little cry, then silence.
The sharp edges and growing silences of an unravelling relationship, the panicked receipt of information regarding a friend's medical crisis: a parking-lot phone call is one of immediacy or obligation, something you have to tend to when there's nowhere else to go.
In sharp contrast to the silencing marks, H4K8ac is almost absent in the central HC domain (4 p/µm2) but, unexpectedly, is found highly enriched in the condensed HC closest to the HC/EC interface (97 p/µm2) and in the EC compartment (41 p/µm2) (Figure 5A C and 8).
It is tempting to speculate that miR-145 could make such transitions sharp and distinct by silencing the hematopoietic differentiation factor Fli1. miRNA-based therapeutics is showing promise in animal models and elevation or inhibition of miR-126 has been proposed as a possible therapeutic strategy in ischemic heart disease, cancer, retinopathy and stroke [ 9].
Here's what I'm talking about: this music of shimmering spaces, disturbed silences, sharp-edged fragments and dream-like unpredictability, his very last work, "Hay que caminar" Soñando for two violins, which Irvine Arditti and David Alberman premiered in 1989.
