Word: constrictive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structure of Korean madang-gut or folk epic works like a chain. Its intent is to alternately constrict and release the crowd's emotional energies through an unfolding sequence of acts depicting celebration and tragedy...
...Western tradition or convention. There was no other way for me to go but forward." The kimono may be "a shape frozen in time," but Miyake not only took from it a way of cutting and wrapping clothes and a means for construction of a sleeve that did not constrict, he used its central concept of the space between body and cloth as a way to let wearer and garment interact, to make from their respective shapes a whole new form...
...heart and the flow of blood through arteries, veins and capillaries, but researchers had never before been able to watch the drugs' effects on discrete parts of the circulatory system. Because the mechanical heart remains unaffected by the drugs, doctors were able to study how the chemicals constrict or relax blood vessels. Schroeder was asleep for this phase of the tests and felt nothing, but he was awake for two other experiments...
Eventually, he says, he consented to small annual salary hikes, "under heavy pressure from some people who said that implicitly this [self-imposed salary freeze] might constrict other people's salaries." Today the president refuses to accept any salary increase greater than that accorded the Faculty, he says...
...complicated enough having six people without adding a manager." Jones says. Having a consultant for purely financial matters tended to constrict the team, he explains, by introducing worries about an audience and "what will sell, what will go over." Left to themselves, the Pythons adhere to only one rule: "If we're not laughing when we're reading the script, then it's a bad sign...