Word: crystalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to clean up, she tells us of her parents' activities in the Communist party. She says, "my father's life has a label," one for which she is clearly still looking. Later, Kate sits in an elegant chair beside a reading table with a single iris in a crystal vase. She speaks in measured and reserved tones, yet when she remembers becoming involved the theatre in Paris, she says, still enthralled by what she found there, "It was the first passion I'd seen except for religion." Suddenly their parallel searches for autonomy and self-definition leap into view...
...notebook, as many Harvard students now do, extra care should be taken regarding the liquid-crystal display (LCD) screen. Poking the screen with your finger nails or a pencil, for example, could result in a hole on the screen, and replacing an LCD could incur some not insignificant expenses...
...Miles Ahead he sits out long passages, but with trumpeter Wallace Roney backing him up, Davis' pride and defiance burn through as he suddenly leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded 30 or 40 years ago. It was a final courageous flourish, and typically Davis. From struggle and defiance...
...representing Silicon Valley, the other Hollywood, have been meeting at trade shows, visiting labs and quietly ! cross-fertilizing. Several prominent executives have jumped ship -- most notably Strauss Zelnick, who quit his job as president of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. this summer to head a video-game company called Crystal Dynamics. This fall dozens of these ventures are at last starting to roll out real products. Among the attractions coming soon to a living-room screen near...
...March, for example, the University's $113million investment in a pair of Crystal City, Va.,office buildings was placed in serious jeopardywhen the U.S. Navy, the buildings' major tenant,announced plans to move within the next severalyears...