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Word: latches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visual, as they try to mask their disjointed live performances with outrageous outfits, wild stage antics, and a jaded, hedonistic style. Timing and musical clarity fused to make their music danceable--simple riff followed simple riff and their lines of action were both easy to follow and easy to latch onto. Crisp, clear, and minimal, it was all a matter of a weird note at the right time...

Author: By David C. Edelman, | Title: Outer Space | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

...brain damage-many basic questions must first be answered. For example, will the transplanted genes actually work as they are supposed to or will they be modified or inactivated by the animal's own genetic machinery? Will the foreign genes free-float in the cells or will they latch on to the other genes arranged along the chromosomes? Will genes that normally are switched on only in specific types of cells function in the same way when they have been introduced into other types of cells through genetic engineering? Finally, will transplanted genes be inherited by the animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Moving Toward Designer Genes | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Mosley is a voyeur. He dips under their lordly business decisions into personal journals and diaries of his subjects and recreates their emotions and feelings. He attempts to latch onto the most vulnerable side of the leading family members, and expands on the little quirks to introduce each of his characters. Mosley's style of intimate portrayals is effective with the twentieth-century du Ponts--simply because he had superb material to work with...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Tending the Family Business | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

Amazingly, despite Lilly's copious writings on the subject (notably The Deep Self), it took California's meditation industry almost two decades to latch onto his discovery. The pioneers of Pop immersion were Glenn and Lee Perry, a Los Angeles couple who started mass-producing tanks for home dunking five years ago and have sold tanks at prices ranging from $1,200 to $2,500. Last June they opened the Samadhi (Sanskrit for state of deep contemplation) Tank Center in Beverly Hills, where they have attracted 3,500 customers. Meanwhile, two-year-old Denver-based Float To Relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Nirvana in a Dank, Dark Tank | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

Many undergraduates will latch onto some kind of research work for a professor or in a lab. A handful will fill research assistant positions overseas. Some never get enough research. The search becomes research. Research, research, indoors, libraries, file cards, papers, research. All the best...

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: Worshipping the Idol of Idle Idylls | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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