Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Analyzing the outcome of almost 27,000 pregnancies, Pathologist Richard Naeye of Pennsylvania's Hershey Medical Center found that infections of the amniotic fluid cushioning the fetus, and the subsequent death of the baby, were more frequent among women who had intercourse in the month before delivery than in those who abstained. Also, according to his report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, certain other problems, including respiratory distress and jaundice, were twice as common in infants whose mothers had been sexually active in their last month...
...artist's versatility. His lithographs employ a broad palette of muted, pastel colors, while the serigraphs are built up from large blocks of flat, brilliant hues. For subjects, Barnet favors women and cats in stylized arrangements leaning toward abstraction. Woman Reading, perhaps his best-known work, achieves an almost hieroglyphic serenity...
Watching The Black Stallion is like spending two hours with a stack of National Geographies. Director Carroll Ballard's adaptation of Walter Farley's boy-and-horse novel consists of one stunning view after another: coral seas, scarlet sunsets, moonlit landscapes, stormy skies. Almost every shot is suitable for framing, and Ballard prefers it that way. Whenever actors step into the frame, the director dismisses them quickly; he seems to feel that characters are intruders who come around only to mess up his pretty pictures...
...work," he may say, or "I don't have any trouble with that." Says Carter's boss, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Hodding performs one of the most difficult tasks in Government with mastery. In Hodding's job the difference between the right word and the almost right word, as Mark Twain once said, is the difference between lightning and the lightning...
Fleming came up with another excellent performance, scoring a game-high 29 points, despite riding the bench with four fouls for much of the late going and all of the first O.T. Almost unobtrusively, just when Harvard needed a basket, Fleming came up with a hoop. Nine out of ten fron, the foul line didn't hurt, either...