Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tutting about American primitivism mixes easily with that other sport, eye rolling about religious primitivism. You know: There go those religious nuts again. In keeping with a popular culture that gives serious religion no attention but devotes endless prime time to crooked, hypocritical and otherwise deformed religiosity, the Waco wackos are getting more coverage in a week than religion does in a year...
...time-honored fashion of ambitious young interns, Kanzi became involved in language experiments by catching the boss's eye. Savage-Rumbaugh noticed that the young ape was learning words she was struggling to teach his mother Matata. The language was a system of abstract visual symbols developed by Savage-Rumbaugh's husband Duane Rumbaugh during his first language experiments with chimpanzees. "If Kanzi could learn without instruction, I wondered, Why teach?" says Savage-Rumbaugh. From then on, Kanzi learned language much the way human children do: by going through the ordinary activities of his day while humans spoke in English...
Hillary, I am nobody's lapdog and certainly not Mike Beys'. While we are friends, we also have strong fundamental disagreements about the future and purpose of the council. Mike and I do not see eye to eye on a variety of issues such as term bill costs, council structure, and the advisability of offering matching fund incentives to the Houses. While we both share a disdain for those members who constantly seem to nitpick and argue minute details instead of grappling with larger issues on Sunday nights, this shared larger vision does not qualify me as "entrenched...
Experts trained by the Harvard Negotiation Project have been conducting an independent evaluation of Harvard race relations, interviewing students and administrators, with an eye toward providing training in conflict management and medication...
...subtitled dialogue in talky French movies, some of Bourre's sentences probably read better in the original. "The mouth," he notes at one point, "acts as a trial laboratory as well as a processing plant, and it's also an artist at work." The author, though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City...