Word: clays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also got momentum: besides his role as a nature photographer in The Lost World, he stars in the forthcoming neo-noir drama The Locusts (opposite, coincidentally, Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw), and is filming the comedy Clay Pigeons (with Janeane Garofalo). "The reason I've scheduled all these movies in a row is that I don't know how long this window of opportunity will last," says Vaughn. "While the opportunity is here, I want to take advantage of it." Don't sweat it, baby, the word's out: everybody knows you're money...
...established traditions that would redress the ebullient rawness of their culture. Hence the fierce objections they raised against their own more inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart of American life." No American painter worked harder to make the human clay palpable and expose it to scrutiny. He identified with scientists, many of whom he knew, and in a portrait of a surgeon, he produced what many regard as America's greatest 19th century painting, The Gross Clinic...
...violate store policy. Longs has reprimanded the pharmacist. Says spokesman Clay Seland: "Our policy is that a pharmacist, if he has moral objections, should refer the prescription to another on-duty pharmacist, or to another Longs, or to a competing pharmacy, if necessary." Collisions between beliefs and access to medication will increase as controversial new drugs surface and unconventional uses for old ones increase--such as those used in physician-assisted suicide. A recent survey of 625 pharmacists showed that 82% of them believe they have the right to refuse to fill a prescription for a drug such...
...lies a mammoth, smoldering pot of magma. Summoned up from the earth's subterranean ovens perhaps 40 miles below, the molten rock simmers under the mountain at up to 3600[degrees]F. As the magma cooks the rocky innards of Mount Rainier, it slowly helps turn them into unstable clay. At the same time this internal furnace corrodes the mountain from the inside, rain and melting snow have been softening it up from the outside. The result, in the surprisingly colloquial argot of the geologist, is a mountain gone "rotten." So rotten, in fact, that a mere seismic hiccup...
...blasted last year for not telling Harvard about the conference. So this year we want to spread the word to everyone who might be interested," Clay said...