Word: bram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bram Stoker's novel The Lair of the White Worm is nothing like a great book, but its outline offers Russell plenty of fodder for his fantasies. An archaeologist unearths the skull of a giant reptile and thus unleashes a pestilence on England's Peak district, courtesy of Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe). In her worship of a humongous subterranean worm, this venomous vamp sprouts fangs, spits at crucifixes, sups on the locals and searches for a sacrificial virgin -- no mean feat, since Russell has set his story in the 1980s...
...probably read the Bram Stoker original. You've probably heard Bela Lugosi say, "I never drink...wine." You've probably put on the play yourself in junior high school. But what other Harvard show offers a performance on Monday--Halloween night itself? Fangs for the memories...
...developer, KRM Associates Realty Trust, installed bay windows illegally overhanging the street when it renovated a fire-damaged apartment building at 99-105 Magazine St. KMR attorney Andrew E. Bram testified to the Council that his company had not known the windows were illegally placed...
...typically clumsy 19th century attempt at pornography, b) a rather silly self-indulgence by Gustave Flaubert, c) a shocking specimen of male chauvinism, d) all of the above or e) none of the above? Skeptical common sense suggests that the best answer would be b or perhaps d. To Bram Dijkstra, an erudite and passionately indignant professor of comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego, the only answer is c. In case anyone thinks he is making too much of Salammbo's gyrations, Dijkstra wants us to know that a painting of the priestess by Charles Allen...
Modern computers are usually "the exact antithesis" of the human bram, says Etzioni, who works in conjunction with Hewitt. While the brain works relatively slowly yet can do several things simultaneously, the computer runs quickly but can handle only one thing at a time...