Word: bead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolution of the tenants' pets. Like the images, the conclusion is another object added to Arenas' string, so that by the end of the novel it is as if we hold in our hands not a cohesive story, but a stack of pages held together only by a bead of glue...
Even though the cushion had not prevented them from breathing, the air they exhaled had become trapped in the beads. So when they inhaled, they drew in stale air that was low in oxygen. "You end up breathing back in what you've just breathed out," Thach explains. "All the oxygen gets used up." Adults have enough lung power to suck in sufficient oxygen through the pillow, but Kemp and Thach determined that babies could not. By testing rabbits that had the same lung size as infants, the pediatricians proved that rebreathing into the bead-filled cushions was fatal...
...film handles its material fairly honorably. It does not prettify the rigors of cancer treatment, and it does not pump out a cloud of cheap sentiment when things start to go bad for the patient. But if anything redeems Dying Young, it is the playing. Roberts has a bead on the twentysomething spirit -- its curious blend of certainty and confusion -- and Scott catches the inwardness and detachment of a figure astonished to find himself exploring the near side of the far side prematurely. The cool tact of his performance is all the more effective for its understatement and -- just what...
...They're more deliberate efforts to try to get a bead on certain issues and think about how to proceed on a whole set of things," he says...
...bought a $15,000 machine, rented a building for $75 a month and went into business. "I made the product, went out on the road and sold it, and came back and did the invoices." Offering the corner bead at a few dollars less per 1,000 ft. than his big competitors, Sokolof began turning a profit by his second month of operation...