Doctors can now detect mild, traumatic brain injuries easier Nov 17, 2008
These clumps, called doublets and triplets, "seem to be a bit of a smoking gun in Alzheimer's and appear to confer memory loss in animals," says Dennis Selkoe of Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. He suggests they also may be connected to tau protein tangles in the brain, another Alzheimer's culprit. (USA Today -- News)
Underwear as outwear Oct 25, 2008
As the shirt and smock grew more highly-decorated, ornamental openings were slashed in men's doublets and women's gowns to allow the wearer to show off the beauty of the embroidered blackwork on their underwear. Loose outer gowns, kirtles and waistcoats enabled women to offer revealing glimpses of the elegant structuring of their underwear corsetry. (BBC News -- UK)
Ballet review: Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet Prog 1, Sadler's Wells Oct 15, 2008
This is particularly true in Exactitude itself, a smart, knowing pastiche of a classical variation, danced in pea-green tutus for the women and coral doublets for the men. The quintet of dancers sometimes seemed unnerved by its scary speed, but brought staggering lightness to its jumps, turns and graceful ports de bras. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Experimental chemotherapy regimen shows promise in treating advanced lung cancer Aug 12, 2008
Okamoto says these findings compare favorably with previous studies of platinum-based doublets, which demonstrated response rates of 17 to 33 percent, a median time to progression or progression-free survival of three to five months, and a median overall survival time of seven to 14 months. "This is a promising alternative, but needs further testing in randomized trials," he said. (EurekAlert!)
Overview of season's shows Jul 8, 2008
In its final form, the piece begins with most of the dancers wearing simple unitards in coordinated colors, while the soloists appear in Baroque outfits, such as doublets for men and lace skirts for women. By the end of the ballet, the entire company appears in such finery. (Albany Times Union)
Rebel uniforms recycled into profitable souvenirs May 3, 2008
The two, with the help of about eight adults, two students even a fifth-grader, said Hitzhusen, transformed the doublets and capes on the uniforms into 280 souvenir pillows. Mr. Fey (the superintendent) had seen something similar done with uniforms somewhere else, Hitzhusen said. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Tudor England and its enduring celluloid appeal Mar 26, 2008
For a while you could hardly go to the movies or turn on highbrow television without seeing people in doublets, hose and ruffs, writing with quills. You would have thought the appeal would be worn out by now, but decades later our fascination with Henry and his wives, if not with More, oddly persists. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
How one big earthquake triggers another Feb 1, 2008
Doublets are rare but create high-frequency shaking ... These "earthquake doublets" might happen because the first quake shifts stresses around in the Earths crust, triggering the second temblor, scientists say ... Earthquake doublets, such as the Kuril quakes, are known to happen, but are rare. (MSNBC -- Environment)
POETIC TOUCH: SBXLII seen through Shakespeare's eyes Jan 31, 2008
Two heralds, KORNHEISERCRANZ and WILBONSTERN, wearing hideous matching ESPN doublets, elbow the Fetching Sideline Reporter aside. KORNHEISERCRANZ: Upon this line-ed greensward set within A desert the Almighty fixed but for cactus Will be this, our strange stage for Sabbath's pigskin war, Waged by mesomorphs come from green Blue States afar. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
'New Amsterdames' mines city's Dutch roots at QTIP Dec 14, 2007
"The detailing is beautiful. The women who sold donuts wear these exquisite red wooden shoes and we have people with doublets and things. The worst thing about being a playwright is that I don't get a costume!". Anderson met director Heather Ondersma when Ondersma was a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara. (Bayside Times, NY)
Chanel across the Channel Dec 12, 2007
The references bounced about in a typically eclectic Lagerfeld way: gorgeous black organza dresses that were a touch Edwardian, puffed, ruffled beribboned and pintucked, with flashes of Tudor doublets and shoulder rolls, silvered shearling jerkins, purple and silver satin coats with full sleeves, tartans, chiffons and distressed English tweeds in a floor-length greatcoat. Boys and girls walked out in a series of embroidered coats and tunics, encrusted with chunky stones and with punk safety pins... (The Australian)
More of this story Nov 10, 2007
In the dressing room, the Steffan family looked through different skirts, doublets, aprons and jackets. All wore white, long-sleeve shirts with ruffled collars with their costumes. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Behind the Scenes Nov 6, 2007
Despite the lack of breeches and doublets, "I think it's great the way it keeps the integrity of [the] language with only a few small cuts," Cackley said. "It's still accessible to college students, [and] as opposed to seeing costumes and props, [it's] what people see on MTV.". (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Elizabeth fatigue Oct 25, 2007
" Eye on America Elizabeth bridged the Old and New Worlds and the connection with the Americas helps drum up dollars to fund productions across the Atlantic. Historian Susan Ronald wrote about the squabble over the region between Philip of Spain and Elizabeth in Pirate Queen. She says Californians love Francis Drake because he landed in modern-day San Francisco, while Southerners are fascinated by Walter Raleigh because he held the patent for Virginia. "Elizabethans felt like they lived in... (BBC News -- UK)
Shakespeare, with a twist, this weekend Oct 18, 2007
Instead of doublets and hose, think leather and fishnets ... But rather than doublets and hose, we took the image of battles and a wrestling match in the script and took a wrestling motif ... Although the language will be typically Shakespearan, the costumes will look more appropriate for World Wrestling Entertainment events, with actors donning outfits made of leather and fishnets rather than doublets and hose. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Spitzer confirms quadruple-star system Jul 25, 2007
They knew the system contains four stars, and that the stars are paired off into doublets, or binaries. The stars in the binary pairs orbit around each other, and the two pairs also circle each other like choreographed ballerinas. (Xinhuanet, China)
'Caesar' is intriguing but then loses its way Jul 17, 2007
Caesar' is intriguing but then loses its way - 07/17/2007 - MiamiHerald (The Miami Herald)
Oregon Shakespeare love shack gets busy with 3 classics Jul 5, 2007
Like many directors, she's cut the problematic opening -- the beginning of a framing device Shakespeare apparently never finished -- but she's kept the story in its original period, with David Kay Mickelsen's colorful, wide-hipped gowns, fantastical doublets and neck ruffs amid Richard L. Hay's Renaissance settings and Todd Barton's period Italianate score. She's fortunate to have a generally strong supporting cast, with King as a Baptista whose erratic temper mirrors his explosive daughter... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jack of all trades Jun 26, 2007
"It's far too easy to get locked into the Renaissance Faire treatment of Shakespeare, codpieces and doublets. I think Shakespeare still has a lot to say about human nature that we really have not changed that much in 400 years," he says. Curtis draws a picture of Geoffrion as a thoughtful director in love with his art. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Book roundup: Historical fiction May 31, 2007
Abrams succeeds best in spiriting the reader to that era, Spain's Golden Age, to a time of doublets and daggers, stallions and, um, swordplay. He's less nimble when handling weightier material, including religion and, of course, romance. (USA Today -- Life)
Motile Cilia go with the flow Apr 23, 2007
Cilia movement is driven by an array of longitudinal microtubules arranged in 9 doublets around a central pair. A basal body anchors these microtubules inside the cell. (EurekAlert!)
Streep warms up for 'Mamma' Apr 19, 2007
Eye candy in 16th century getups, although corsets and doublets are unlaced often. I especially enjoy Sam Neill as the wickedly ambitious Cardinal Wolsey. (Variety)
* Shakespeare's tragedy gets the Gallic treatment Apr 6, 2007
Don't expect to see a lot of doublets and tights, though. This is a modern musical, which means that women are garbed in what might be called the "medieval/gothic romantic look" with bustiers and tight ruffles, and long trenchcoats for Romeo and his friends, more Adam Ant than heavy velvets and brocades. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Warnings overdone, says quake expert Apr 3, 2007
History showed that big quakes along the trench, which runs more than 1000 kilometres from Bougainville to Vanuatu, often happened in pairs, or "doublets", he said. Seven powerful doublets had been recorded in the area in the past century - in 1919, 1923, 1939, 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
When Your Brain Talks, Your Muscles Don't Always Listen Mar 14, 2007
Knight and graduate student Dhiraj Poojari and undergraduate researchers Maria Bellumori and Christopher Martens then analyzed the firing-rate data for frequency and amplitude in a tedious process that Knight hopes to automate in the future through the ongoing development of a software program that will help sort out the bang-bang-like doublets, the brief periods when the neurons fire faster, from slower periods of activity. The results showed lower firing rates among older subjects versus... (Science Daily)
Perry's Jewelry Feb 28, 2007
Doublets were used in between the eras of glass and man-made synthetic stones ... Garnet and glass doublets were some of the earliest examples ... Even after synthetics were introduced doublets were still common. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Tom Waits tribute Jan 26, 2007
" Giving back to the greatness along with 5 Cent Coffee will be Stella, Dogs in Doublets, Pretty C -- and Liquor Cake -- who plan to span Waits' entire career using junk percussion, kazoos, melodeons and maybe even your beer bottles. The happiest surprise of the night, Zegri says, is that almost half of the songs to be played will feature lead female vocals. "For such a masculine sound as Tom Waits' voice, to hear it translated to a female voice is really different and really beautiful," he... (San Francisco Chronicle)
