Word: archly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tended to think of reviewers as tolerant folk like himself. But second time around, his detractors were ready. The Spectator magazine published not one but two critiques upbraiding Mayle for barging into print after only three or four years in the area, using occasional French phrases and being arch. One account even disparages Provencal cooking ("never the kind of haute cuisine to be found . . . in Burgundy or the Perigord...
...particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably along. Far more Ubu-like are the sets and costumes by artist Roland Topor, which achieve startling new depths of vulgarity through their persistent evocation of feces and entrails. Is a triumphal arch crowned by a defecating man waving toilet paper black humor, or does it go beyond post-funny and into the realm of merely disgusting...
Caring for such infants is frustrating. "You don't do things that come naturally," notes Diane Carleson, a foster mother in San Mateo, Calif. "The more you bounce them and coo at them, the more they arch their backs to get away. Their poor mothers want so badly to make contact, yet they are headed for rejection unless they learn how not to overstimulate them...
Their shape may turn out to be a structural achievement that on the molecular level is as noteworthy as the keystone arch. "This molecule," says IBM physicist Donald Bethune, "looks like something some genius engineer sat down and designed." In essence, a buckyball forms a cage that begs to be filled. By placing different atoms inside the cage, scientists should be able to engineer materials with unique electronic, catalytic and even biomedical properties. One intriguing possibility: if they prove nontoxic, buckyballs might encapsulate radioactive atoms used in cancer therapy, serving as shields that protect normal tissue from damage...
This is the first time in four years that the Radcliffe junior varsity boat has been able to out-row arch-rival Yale, and it did so with class on Saturday. Radcliffe crossed the line in 7:17.8, defeating Yale by an enormous margin of 28 seconds...