In the silk-silicon electronics, the silk plays a passive but important role.
But all I remember, having just turned 16, is a dream coming true: the greatest rock musician of all time (one knew this with assurance) dressed in blazing red and purple silks, actually playing the version of "Sgt Pepper's" about which I had read so much in NME, playing "Purple Haze", "Voodoo Chile" and a long, searing "Machine Gun", just yards away.
Singers in hand-embroidered silk costumes play the characters of Chinese legend: emperors and warlords, wily bandits and maidens in distress.
At Club Silk they play a wide mix of R'n'B, reggae, dancehall, some African hits and a few cheesy western classics.
She was watching "Baby Face," a delectably sordid 1933 studio film about an ?ermensch in silk stockings played by Barbara Stanwyck, who climbs to the top one bed at a time.
The presence of amino acid residues in silk fibroin plays a big role in the cell-scaffold interaction, the nature of drug binding and also its release characteristics to control the cell proliferation.
Traditional Korean instruments like the piri (similar to an oboe), the haegeum (a vertically-held instrument with two silk strings played with a bow) and geomungo (a Korean zither) are used to create a postmodern racket.
He might have added that silk also plays a strong role in the Collection Zero, named, the designer said, not because it was his first show for the brand, but for the European art movement started in Agnona's early years in the 1950s.
Young Rocky Mountain guides, four Texan anglers, my boatmates and I satâ€"some of us still in our fishing long johns, eyes drooping, holding wineglassesâ€" and listened to three women and two men, dressed in embroidered silk costumes, play haunting pentatonic music from the Chinese courts of Kublai Khan on a collection of instruments so exotic I had no idea any of them existed.
Equally important, silk also played a critical role in the evolutionary diversification of spiders [13], [14].
