Word: crisping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mounsey is very aggressive," said Ruggiero, the other Olympic defenseman in the conference. "She is not afraid of stepping in front of forwards, and she doesn't let anyone walk into the slot. If we are going to challenge her, we'll have to move the puck with crisp passes because it's not easy to skate around...
...beaten the clock. The alarm is set for 3:30 a.m., but like a kid before Christmas, she is up and about in her red bathrobe 10 minutes early. Outside, the St. Louis suburb of University City is asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance calendar, a crisp notation--"B&E: Papal Mass"--dictates an early start. Betty, 50, comes back down the hall with a black suit on and a pin-striped, bleary-eyed corporate lawyer, her husband Ed, in tow. She glows. "I woke up smiling," says the mother of five. "I think this...
...biggest problem with patenting genes is that while scientists have at least a general idea of what specific strands of genetic coding do, often it's just that--general. Investigators do sometimes succeed in isolating a single, crisp gene with a single known function. Often, however, researchers trying to map genes get no further than marking off fragmentary stretches of DNA that may be thousands of bases in length. These so-called expressed sequence tags may have real genetic information embedded in them, but determining where those nuggets are and what their structure is takes more digging...
...every line strikes with ferocious intensity. The drawings can also have a fuzzy and faint quality; crisp lines are smeared into misty shadows and dreamlike figures. A black and white chalk drawing entitled Lady Attended by a Handmaiden, has a hazy atmosphere to it, from no distinct quality but the softness of the graceful lines and gentle curves made by the chalk. Many of the scenes set outside are lazy and unfocused, yet the sun is obviously shining, even though the drawing has been done in black and white chalk...
Sophocles' Electra is no Hamlet. She doesn't agonize over whether to avenge the murder of her father Agamemnon by killing her mother Clytemnestra. She just does it (or rather, has her brother Orestes do it). Leveaux, who has brought his crisp staging of the tragedy from London to Broadway, says he was thinking of events in Bosnia: Can the cycle of vengeance ever end? Yet he resists the urge to add modern complexities to this fiercely singleminded play. Enough to watch the talented Zoe Wanamaker as a very human, almost waifish Electra, buried in a gigantic overcoat, like...