Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years or a Chopin every century. It would be better still if we could be guaranteed not just an Einstein but the Einstein. If a scientific method were developed so that the man who explained general relativity in the first half of the century could be brought back to crack the secrets of naked singularities in the second, could we resist using it? And suppose the person being replicated were researching not just abstruse questions of physics but pressing questions of medicine. Given the chance to bring back Jonas Salk, would it be moral...
...Line of Fire. But Eastwood is less interested in political corruption than in filial care; the warming, nicely played relationship of the burglar and his lawyer daughter (Laura Linney) is the source of the film's absolute power. It's a sweet pleasure to see a fatherly smile crack open that Rushmore face...
Stress fracture was the diagnosis, yet this was a unique injury--the crack went a third of the way through Kelly's tibia. But the ailment should clear itself up by the time Kelly entered Harvard, the doctors said...
Everything to play for, then. Who would crack first? Sadly, B.C. would suffer in more ways than one. Though LaCouture's elbow to the head of Chris Masters deserved a penalty, it was Masters who left the ice--unconscious on a stretcher...
...world where women smoke but never swear, and pregnancy and infidelity can destroy. It's no coincidence that author Robert Clark sets his debut novel at precisely the moment when America's confidence in leading the world and its belief in its higher myths about itself began to crack...