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In the following outline of thirteen psalms translated since 1937, the preoccupation with darkness and the elimination of any reference to death is conspicuous.
The mission has the opposite end of the one in Apocalypse Now : not the war's heart of darkness but its heart of light.
In Helen Whitney's PBS documentary Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light , he is confronted by Sandra Bennet, who was 12 when he put her on the cover of In the American West in a halter top and denim overalls.
Previous studies of cryptochrome's chronobiological role in Drosophila emphasized that CRY may function as a deep brain photoreceptor involved in mediating resetting of the clock by light [ 26 ] . Support for this hypothesis came from the observation that locomotor-activity rhythms in cry b flies are unaffected in constant darkness and also maintain rhythmicity under constant light, a condition that causes behavioral arrhythmicity in the wild type [ 33 ] . While antennal rhythms of gene expression and of odor sensitivity in DD are significantly attenuated in cry b tissues ( [ 23 ] , unlike locomotor rhythmicity [ 21 ] ), it remained possible that such effects are due to an altered role of light on the developing clock.
He captures the show's mix of darkness, humor, and humanity--without slipping into the criminal-with-a-heart-of-gold cliché.