Word: elasticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America has a strange taste in atrocities and an elastic attention span for them. The 10,000 African children who die each day of starvation can hardly cop a headline, but Tonya and Nancy held our fascination for weeks. Some see O.J. Simpson as a hero, not guilty by reason...
How can such a small mistake -- the equivalent of changing the spelling of Smith to Smyth -- have such an impact? Each three-letter "word" of a gene "sentence" spells out the instructions for producing 1 of 20 amino acids, compounds that in turn link to form proteins. A change in...
In the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has left Russia suspended between communism and democracy, words become elastic. Either they stand for something that has yet to exist, or their meaning is bent to meet the objectives of warring political factions. Here is a short guide to Russia's...
A few of the acts suffer from the lavish production. The most unnecessary element of the show is singer Francine Poitras, who's been outfitted in a sort of bathrobe, dangly earrings and a headdress that looks like a shiny pineapple. Although a decent singer, her presence serves mostly to...
The answer is to provide a gearlike association, the way sports shoes have done by gluing on wildly colored pieces of leather and rubber, supposedly of different density and (nifty gear wording here) torsional rigidity, so the shoe looks like a machine. Prince, the firm that in 1976 invented the...