Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most doctors are convinced that a faster, more successful cure for allergies is bound to come. Using molecular-biology techniques, researchers have already identified IgE receptors on the mast cell, basically little berths in which the antibody docks. If they can find or synthesize another substance that blocks those receptors, they can prevent IgE from docking and unleashing the mast cell's stream of debilitating chemicals. And as scientists isolate and analyze more and more human genes, they may find the ones that, when defective, cause allergic reactions. Such discoveries could quickly lead to precise tests for allergies and eventually...
...PRICE, his 1968 tale of two brothers dividing the petty sticks of furniture that constitute their father's estate. The play returned to Broadway last week in an impeccable staging, with film veteran Hector Elizondo (Pretty Woman) giving the performance of his career as the resentful, duty- bound brother and Eli Wallach wringing every imaginable laugh from a tragicomic turn as an 89-year-old immigrant furniture dealer...
...afford to fund that." At a May conference at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art she declared that, despite the acrid controversy over NEA policy in the arts community, "blood is thicker than water, and we have to stick together to save the NEA." This seems bound to translate into more conservative, "mainstream" funding policy, although 97 out of 100 NEA grants go to projects that have nothing to do with what is vaguely called "the cutting edge" of culture...
...third element that seems bound to fuel further controversy over the NEA is a verdict just handed down by a federal court in Los Angeles. In 1990 Frohnmayer, hoping to mollify the Republican right, introduced a clause requiring "general standards of decency" as a basis for NEA grants. On that standard, four performance artists (Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, John Fleck and Tim Miller) saw their applications for grants rejected and sued the NEA. Last week Judge A. Wallace Tashima struck down the "decency" clause as vague and unconstitutional. The government, he said, does not have "free rein to impose ( whatever...
...almost totally paralyzed, speechless and wheelchair-bound, able to move only his facial muscles and two fingers on his left hand. He cannot dress or feed himself, and he needs round-the-clock nursing care. He can communicate only through a voice synthesizer, which he operates by laboriously tapping out words on the computer attached to his motorized chair. Yet at age 50, despite these crushing adversities, Stephen Hawking has become, in the words of science writers Michael White and John Gribbin, "perhaps the greatest physicist of our time." His 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, has sold...