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All these scenes have earned their place in the annals of inanity, but nothing in American Pie , Lake Placid , The Blair Witch Project , or Deep Blue Sea could rival an early scene in Eyes Wide Shut where a silver-haired Hungarian smoothie dancing with Nicole Kidman purrs into her ear, "I'm delighted to meet you, Alice.
Neither Kubrick nor the first-time filmmakers from Blair Witch Project have much to fear in the way of competition from this flaccid creature feature, written by David E. Kelley ( The Practice , Ally McBeal ). At a fictional lake in Maine--not the real Lake Placid in New York--Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman take on a 30-foot migrant crocodile from Asia.
El Golfo, by contrast, is a placid, emerald-green lagoon set beside a cliff that resembles a gigantic petrified tidal wave just about to break.
The acetylated histone isoforms were detected by immunoblot against acetylated histone H3 isoforms using anti-H3 antibodies raised and characterized by Dr Sharon Roth at MD Anderson Cancer Center (personal communication) or against acetylated histone H4 isoforms using anti-H4 polyclonal antibody (Upstate Biotechnology Inc, Lake Placid, NY, USA).
A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed "exhibition guide" that replaces the usual wall panels.