Word: breed
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...CLEAR exactly what Lanford Wilson was trying to do with The Rimers of Eldritch. Rimers came out of the late 1960's a curious kind of half-breed. It broke from the traditional comedy or love-story categories into which most of Wilson's later work falls fairly neatly. It's not a murder mystery or a western, as the sensational excerpt on the publicity posters around campus might suggest. Instead, it's an early and uncertain try at experimental theater, one that ends up as a modern mood piece, a stained glass of many parts through which a light...
...scientifically. While this is sometimes true. often it isn't. Science is increasingly done in interdisciplinary groups. Such exchanges of ideas are as critical to the process as the most private of thoughts. Very rarely do scientists sit for days simply thinking. except of course for that small breed of theoreticians...
Americans themselves are profoundly discouraged by the handguns that seem to breed uncontrollably among them like roaches. For years the majority of them have favored restrictions on handguns. In 1938 a Gallup poll discovered that 84% wanted gun controls. The latest Gallup finds that 62% want stricter laws governing handgun sales. Yet Americans go on buying handguns at the rate of one every 13 seconds. The murder rate keeps rising. It is both a cause and an effect of gun sales...
...galloping cost of oil has spawned a new breed of rustlers on the American prairies. Instead of roping longhorns, they steal crude oil-right from the production fields. Driving tanker trucks capable of carrying up to 200 bbl. of crude, these so-called hot oilers simply pull up to remote storage facilities, drain the contents into their vehicles, then skedaddle with their liquid loot...
...Eichhorn's is more than that, ranging from drunken despair to crisp reformation to, finally, gentle acquiescence in Bridges' fantasy. But the energy cell powering the whole works is Heard. Recent movies have been full of psychopaths, but this is the definitive statement on that snaky breed. The alternation of charm and rage, of bravado and self-pity-above all the watchful intelligence in the eyes, judging just how far he can go before people revolt against his manipulations-all this marks Heard's as a big but never too broad performance. That somehow one keeps liking...