Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When University of Arizona Astronomer Richard Elston first aimed a newly assembled infrared-light detector at the heavens last spring, he was hoping to find objects so faint that they had never been seen by human eyes. Almost at once, his specially equipped telescope picked up something astronomers have been seeking for years. Last week Elston and two colleagues announced at an American Astronomical Society conference in Austin that they had found what appeared to be primeval galaxies some 17 billion light-years from earth -- so far away in both space and time that they seemed to be poised...
Hollywood -- and America -- may be faint of telltale heart. Drabinsky isn't, though. He knows that his toughest competition is himself. Ah, but what if a younger, hungrier showman comes along? No sweat. "If there's a young Garth Drabinsky out there," says Drabinsky, "A) he's welcome to try, and B) I'd probably hire...
...Paris -- and it was almost always late at night in Jimmy Baldwin's Paris -- he would occasionally take out a ball-point pen and start drawing a large rectangle on what was left of a beer-stained paper tablecloth. Inside the rectangle he would slowly write, sometimes with a faint smile on his lips, a series of incantatory words...
...MEANWHILE, have the reciever jammed tightly into your temples--creating a permanent indentation in your already unsightly skull--trying desperately to pick-up faint traces of the conversation on the other line. When you are reconnected, your formerly friendly conversation then degenerates...
...they taste in his New Orleans restaurant, K-Paul's. The Prudhomme Family Cookbook (Morrow; 446 pages; $19.95) dishes up "old-time Louisiana recipes by the eleven Prudhomme brothers and sisters." This richly fragrant fare, based on lusty ingredients and strong Cajun seasonings, is not for dieters or the faint-palated. Jambalayas, boudins and gumbos abound. Prudhomme not only contributed his blackened-redfish recipe to Claiborne's book but also repeats it here, along with far more appropriate recipes for blackening chicken, hamburgers and pork chops, a technique that relies on spices and an almost white-hot iron skillet...