Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boys had separate brains, but they shared a major vein in the back of the head called the sagittal superior sinus, a large canal through which blood flows toward the heart. Past efforts to separate similarly joined twins had resulted in either death or brain damage. Indeed, one such attempt by doctors in Chicago in 1981 ended tragically with both children bleeding to death on the operating table. Theresia, 20, and Josef Binder, 36, searched in their own country and the U.S. for a medical team that could offer their sons a better prospect...
...Fein: "It's counterproductive because in the long run jurisprudence won't change unless the President says, 'I campaigned because we wanted to change the Supreme Court, and Bork represents the kind of judge who will correct the errors the court has made in the past.' " Fein believes the attempt to portray Bork as a moderate will collapse at the hearings as soon as a Judiciary Committee member says to the judge, "The White House says you're just like Powell. Do you agree?" Says Fein: "He can't possibly...
...Atmospheric Administration: "It would be dumb to make up my mind before the results from the field are all in." He should not have long to wait. Last month a DC-8 and a converted U-2 spyplane began flights under and through the hole in the most intensive attempt to date to pin down a detailed model of the ozone depletion process. Preliminary results should be announced later this month...
...Buttercup (Robin Wright) from a monarchy full of dastards. To do this, he will outduel the expert swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), outwit the scheming Sicilian Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and outwrestle a rodent of unusual size. Buttercup will survive an attack by a swarm of shrieking eels and an attempt on her honor by wicked Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), whom Westley will climactically engage in a fight "to the pain." There will be a duel of styles too: of romantic grandeur against the balloon-pricking impishness of a cast culled from Saturday Night Live (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest), Beyond...
...blood presence of Beloved roils the novel's intense, realistic surface. This young woman may not actually be Sethe's reincarnated daughter, but no other explanation of her identity is provided. Her symbolic significance is confusing; she seems to represent both Sethe's guilt and redemption. And Morrison's attempt to make this strange figure come to life strains unsuccessfully toward the rhapsodic: "I will never leave you again/ Don't ever leave me again/ You will never leave me again...