Word: straining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Around the third mile, however, the race split and except for Logan the Harvard runners began to drop back never to fully recover from the early strain. Still, Harvard runners Murphy and Felix Rippy made great efforts in the last stages of the race...
Recombinant DNA, or gene splicing, is a kind of modern alchemy. Scientists obtain DNA for a desired product, such as human insulin, and insert it into the DNA of a laboratory strain of a common intestinal bacterium. The bacterium, following directions from the new DNA, then produces the insulin. Scientists believe that the technique can be used to form a number of healthcare, agricultural and industrial products more cheaply and easily than ever before (see MEDICINE...
...consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley Duvall's role as Olive Oyl was not much easier. "I had shin splints for weeks from those size-14, quintuple-A boots," she groans. Not to mention anvil forearms from toting Swee' Pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt) around and neck strain from craning to Oylesque proportions. Toughest of all was stifling the giggles. Says Duvall: "Once we were in costume, we just laughed at each other...
...film's comic tone, however, is as deadpan as that of a New Yorker profile. The interested-disinterested camera follows its subject for a few days, records snippets of conversation, refuses to strain for socko punch lines or an apocalyptic climax. As an ironic True Confessions, the film may satisfy the benign curiosity millions of people seem to have about Woody Allen. The star of cover stories in virtually every major magazine has now written and directed his own. It is the story of his life and his films, a defense of a public artist's need...
RECONCILED. Terry Bradshaw, 31, quarterback of the N.F.L. champion Pittsburgh Steelers; and JoJo Starbuck, 29, professional ice skater and former star of the Ice Capades; one month after she filed for divorce in Pittsburgh. Their marriage had appeared to founder under the strain of two big-time sports careers; but, according to Bradshaw, the couple, both born-again Christians, have put God "first in our lives, then our marriage and then our careers...