Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, the relatively calm, reaction may be a reflection of the pervasiveness of the scientific mindset. Robert J. Stillman, director of the program under which the experiment took place, was quoted in Newsweek as saying he wondered why "people have not been able to separate the what if from what we actually did." Behind Stillman's statement is a faith that pure science can, in fact, be distinguished from its application. Perhaps because scientists are used to working with abstractions, they are able to draw a fairly definite line between theory and practice...
...official response did little to calm fears. Health Minister Horst Seehofer recommended that anybody who had received blood products since 1982 undergo a test for HIV -- which caused a run on testing sites. Hospitals were laboriously checking records to identify patients who received blood from UB Plasma, but the task was huge and the records were not always clear on the source of the products used...
James Caan's performance is calm on the outside but seething with wickedness. Where the plot provides no motive for his actions, Caan tells us through his acting--he is evil and he will get what he wants...
This realism, however, does not prevent Kaige from engaging in artistic symbolism; the lake where the boys, who meet as children in a troupe of actors-in-training, practice their singing is a cool, calm respite from the political strife that dominates the movie, and its diffused, early-morning lighting and wide stretches of green lilypads give it an almost dream-like quality. When Dieyi succumbs to opium addiction later in the film, Kaige focuses on a giant fish bowl to convey his trapped, drugged state, out of which he is forced by the will of Xiaolou...
...determination. By midweek, the committee convinced the Senate leadership to schedule a chamber-wide debate on its subpoena of the full diaries. The debate this week, which will be followed by a vote, will determine if the Senate proceeds to U.S. district court to enforce compliance. Plainly hoping to calm jitters and win votes, Bryan dismissed Packwood's suggestion that other Senators might be caught in a diary dragnet. "There is no witch hunt or fishing expedition under way," Bryan said. "The ethics committee has no interest in pursuing information related to the private lives of members of Congress...