Word: eyelashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Waddell to define her style and without the flutter of an eyelash she unrolls a crisp definition: a combination of Mary Quant, Monrian, '60s mod and Versace. She likes to use polyesters because they wash easily and vinyls even though they don't. She looks for combinations of colors and textures on the right side of flashy-bright and spectacular without being glitzy. She can be quite experimental in her choice of materials, constructing pants and jackets from yellow caution tape or police line. Despite the repetitive warnings of these pieces, Waddell's clothing crosses artistic boundaries, erring even into...
This is not a bad premise for a cautionary science-fiction tale. And anyone who has cheated on an expense account can identify with a character like Hawke's, working a much bigger scam on a bureaucracy quiveringly alert to genetic impostors. A lost eyelash, a bit of exfoliated skin left on his keyboard could undo him--especially when the cops, led by a very querulous Alan Arkin, suddenly descend on his facility and, as they investigate a murder, start subjecting everyone's detritus to genetic spot checks...
...ranks of the Gattaca elite. Jerome's brilliant record qualifies him to lead a mission to one of Jupiter's moons, attracting the amorous interest of a fellow Gattacan, Irene (Uma Thurman). But the scheme hits some very rough waters when a mission director is murdered and an eyelash found near the crime scene is traced to the In-Valid Vincent Freeman...
After 15 years in the business, nothing fazes Phelps. She wouldn't bat an eyelash if someone asked for a remote control vibrator or an electric cattle prod. In fact, a lot of people have been asking for these two products lately, Phelps says...
...Near-Earth Asteroids next week in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and is planning a seminar this year on asteroid avoidance. Still, the threat of a sneak attack remains. In 1989 a 250-m-wide (820 ft.) asteroid was discovered only after it had missed the earth by an astronomical eyelash -- less than 804,500 km (500,000 miles...