Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manipulating the body's genes to cure disease has been a long-sought but elusive goal for scientists. The genes, discrete bits of DNA on the chromosomes in each cell, control all body activities by directing the production of essential chemicals. When the genes are intact, they send flawless manufacturing messages, and the body functions normally. But if damaged, they produce garbled instructions and hence disease. In so-called genetic surgery, doctors hope eventually to use recombinant-DNA techniques to cut out "bad"genes and substitute "good" ones. Now, though, there may be a more immediately applicable...
Martins' influence on ballet in America has much to do with the ease and confidence of his style. He has set a flawless standard for partnering a ballerina. If the aggressive vigor of Edward Villella and Jacques d'Amboise made classical dance an attractive pursuit for men, Martins has taken that style and said, in effect, "Relax." He never inflates a movement, never accelerates into showy riffs of excess energy...
...delivery was flawless, his tone somber, his message meant to be reassuring. "Our children should not grow up frightened," Ronald Reagan said. "They should not fear the future." But the President's approach to preventing nuclear war was of itself, and necessarily, a frightening thing: he urged deployment of 100 huge new MX intercontinental ballistics missiles in a Dense Pack cluster near Cheyenne...
...made a marvelous story, as Porter knew all too well. For the woman who became rich and famous for her 1962 novel, Ship of Fools, and who will be remembered for such flawless short stories as "Flowering Judas" and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," invented herself as her first work of art. As usual, the truth is more intriguing than the legend. Joan Givner, a patient rather than a flashy biographer, has set the record straight. It is not a record that allows much grandeur to its high-toned subject...
...black-and-white headlines of political upheaval a pure narrow gray band of personal experience. The subject--four Poles stranded in London during the imposition of martial law naturally invites an impassioned ideological treatment, but Skolimkowski's film is, on the surface, politically devoid. Instead we are given nearly flawless meditation on exile from an interior perspective...