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...from their baseball or bagel-shaped body blobs. In one, two straining neuron-like beings wrestle or dance with the energetic whipping of their interconnected arms. Nearby, another languishes on its side, exhaling through some great orifice or wound--an opening of transparent paper skin at once feathery and crisp...
...crisp December air was livened Saturday by the protesters' shouts of "No eviction for profit!" and the sound of drums and trumpets played by other rally participants...
...practice known as Reproductive Biology Associates, located in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, is pretty typical of the 315 fertility clinics in the U.S. and of the hundreds more in other countries around the world. Most of its patients--couples, mainly, but also single women--are here on this crisp, bright autumn day because they have tried in vain to have babies the old-fashioned way. Now they hope that medical science can help them satisfy that most basic of instincts, programmed into the brain and body by millions of years of evolution: the urge to bear children...
Harvard-philes who buy grapes in the fall might even find some "Crimson seedless," "a blush-red variety" with "firm, crisp berries with a sweetly tart, almost spicy, flavor," according to the California Grape Commission...
Hawkes, too, is exceptionally good, also quite bold in his appropriation of traditional affectations like crisp consonants and long, drawn-out vowels. His genius is in demonstrating how Prior himself uses affectations to take on the world, an effort made all the more poignant by his persuasive bursts of anger and resentment. Augustine's fussy accent and flying hands do not always work so well. At times, his Roy Cohn resembles Woody Allen's nastiest, mightiest older brother, but he does bring Cohn's despotic intelligence and fierce defensiveness vividly to life...