Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Waco last year, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI were laying siege to David Koresh and his followers, few have more painful memories than Robert and Marcia Spoon, who live on narrow Double EE Ranch Road, across from Mount Carmel, the former Branch Davidian compound. Startled by gunshots early on the Sunday morning in February when agents of the ATF raided the compound, the couple and their daughter Amanda, now 6, waited out the fighting crouched in back rooms. Later, with only the clothes on their backs, they fled across a pasture to safety...
...much out on EE Road: piles of broken beams and concrete, the husks of two old cars and a trailer, and the Silver Streak Express -- Koresh's bus, which somehow survived the flames and which security guards use as a warming hut -- are about all that remains of the compound. A broken high chair and rusted toys lying in the gray earth provide reminders of the young dead...
...there are strengths in her work as well. For one thing, Wolf is an engaging raconteur. Once at Swarthmore College she found herself berated by members of a seminar on women's studies as too elitist (she used compound sentences); too lax as an academic (she used endnotes instead of footnotes); too much of a sellout (she published with a mainstream press). Later, over beer and pizza, the same students turned out to be friendly and vulnerable, voicing their late-adolescent doubts about sexuality and self-esteem...
Henry IV. By William Shakespeare. Through Jan. 2. A glorious compound of comedy, drama, and history, as seen through generational conflicts and civil strife. Through two parts, the events are played out against a background of colorful panoply and tumultuous battles. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. 547-8300. $18-$42. Tuesday-Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday...
Although trials of the drug are still in their early stages, Ojima says some of the baccatin compounds have already been shown to have a greater effect on tumors than taxol. The compound also dissolves better in water, so it may be easier to administer...