A genetic palindrome refers to a sequence of nucleotides within a strand of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) or RNA (ribonucleic acid) that contains the same series of nitrogenous bases regardless from which direction the strand is analyzed. Akin to a...

A term for a word or phrase that reads the same backwards and forwards, e.g. able was I ere I saw Elba and the name Otto. This is a special type of...

This is a word or phrase which is the same whether read forwards or backwards, for example noon, peep, tat, Anna and...

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). Composing literature in palindromes is an...

The ancient and popular Art of the Palindrome blazes out from the epicenter of the universe of letter play. Alistair Reid expresses what may be the very heart of the fascination for matters palindromic when he writes, "The dream which occupies the tortuous...

PALINDROMES Written and directedbyTodd Solondz Wellspring OpensApril 13, Angelika ABORT, RETRY, FAIL Dr. Awkward: Solondz's universe remains static and schematic, backward and forward Somewhere over the rainbow and someplace beyond sarcasm lies the arid, forbidding world of Todd...

As a detour from the beaten paths of stupidity and boredom that have come to symbolize contemporary filmmaking in general, a new thriller with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, directed by the crafty and polished Sydney Pollack, automatically gets the adrenalin going. So what a...

After the Academy Awards, Hollywood usually takes a little hiatus until summer, when the studios roll out a weekly parade of stadium-fillers. But in recent years, it's become difficult to pinpoint when spring ends and summer begins-and 2005 proves to be no exception.In early March,...