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Colonies from each round of selection were lifted to plates containing IPTG using a butterfly nitrcellulose membrane (Midwest Scientific, Valley Park, MO).
Leonardo's "flying machine" would not have flown, but that hardly counts against its visual bravura; one version resembled a calabash shell crossed with a windmill, and another, a four-winged butterfly.
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).
' Early pavilions were tents, which were shaped like the spread wings of the butterfly.
The New York Public Library is also getting in on the action with an exhibit of Nabokov's manuscripts and personal effects, such as his glasses and butterfly net.