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Critics profess surprise that Scottish director Danny Boyle's follow-up to the much-praised Trainspotting should have turned out to be a "pileup of spectacular flakiness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They call the plot, in which a disgruntled janitor (Ewan McGregor) kidnaps and then falls in love with his boss's daughter (Cameron Diaz), "pure, vintage fluff" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Scenes involving angels, played by Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter, are said to be especially silly.
Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposés, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like "dual hegemony," "limited nuclear war," and the slogan "win the peace" to the American language.
We used several multisequence alignment methods (PsiBlast [ 6 ] , Clustal W 1.74 [ 7 ] , Pileup of the GCG package [ 8 ] ) to initially align KirBac with eukaryotic Kir sequences accessible in public databases.
The PILEUP (GCG), CLUSTALW [ 39] and New Hampshire [ 48] formats are recognized.
All sequences were pre-aligned with PILEUP [ 56] and/or DIALIGN2 [ 57] then hand-corrected.