Word: threading
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...there is a thread that runs through the many stories about mixed-race families, it is the amazing resilience of the kids. As difficult as the questions about their identity may be, they swiftly find ways to right themselves and move on. That resilience should prove less necessary as they move into what is inexorably becoming the mainstream...
...Baker a thief or a cop? Is she using both identities in order to further her own ends? Which side is she really on? This mystery, which provides the film's solitary thread of mental stimulation, isn't solved until the very end. The rest of the movie is, regrettably, quite straightforward...
...most responsible circles. Each sentence, at least, for readers with stretchier imaginations, does manage to stand on its own--it is the sentence that follows which makes no sense. While each stanza begins with a hint a plot (at times reassuringly contained in quotation marks), its thread is soon lost in a stream of inside-joke-like surreality, such that one imagines the Vivians must be quite bright and also quite tight, in both senses of the word. And before long referents are slipping, definite articles are caught in the most inappropriate positions, and "It was just their pot luck...
...common thread is that there is a need forvery rapid action for the safety or welfare of thestudent or of the community, and the student isuncooperative," he wrote in an e-mail message lastnight...
...reason the drug works so well is that doctors inject it into a catheter, which they thread through the arteries of the brain to deliver treatment directly to the site of the clot. So far, the therapy has been tested only on clots in the middle cerebral artery, which is the site of perhaps a third of clot-caused strokes. It's conceivable, Furlan says, that as many as half of such strokes can be treated in this...