Word: stutter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This isn't a plea for sympathy; along with their self-doubt, journalists are given to insufferable vanity and sanctimony. And if you're like most Americans, you despise them for it. But look a little closer, and see the newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this is really...
...others will find reluctantly rewarding. It is understandable that people might want to leave this winter scene to spend the weekend where the grass is visible and the dogs are not so empowered. But the bobcats are worth watching, their halogens shooting into the attacking snow as their engines stutter and their wheels squeal in the effort to shovel the snow from street to curb. The dogs won't run on clean streets. The cars will, though. The bikes might still encounter some icy trouble...
Even in the best of circumstances, the lift-off will not be pretty. Growth will stutter more than roar. And unemployment rates, which will reach an estimated 11.7% this year in the E.U. and 2.8% in Japan, will decline only after the economic recovery has been better established. Herewith, tidings from the various fronts...
Rather than charging forward like "Anarchy in the U.K." (or like "Johnny B. Goode," for that matter), the songs on The Raincoats seem to stutter, or stumble, or struggle ahead, with Aspinall's violin in the lead; the momentum they do achieve builds up within the course of each song. Standout pieces like "Fairytale in the Supermarket" and "Black and White" (which begins with siren-like saxophone bleats) fall together as they go along, as if the improv techniques of free jazz had suddenly been discovered to apply to rock and roll, or as if-and I think this...
...down than the one implicated in Huntington's disease -- which was finally located after a decade-long search last year. Not only did it turn out to be tucked into a particularly hard-to-reach spot on the tip of chromosome 4, but it was what scientists call a "stuttering gene." Hidden in its DNA is a sequence of nucleotides that spells out the same genetic word -- in this case, CAG -- again and again. The normal version of this gene contains anywhere from 11 to perhaps 34 copies of this three- letter stutter. The defective Huntington's gene, researchers discovered...