Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed it is. What emerges from this complex collaboration is the illusion that, by George, Gershwin is right in one's living room, banging away in his fluid song-plugger style. "Gershwin never played soft," observes Wodehouse. But he did have a consummate technical command of his instrument, which, coupled with the tremendous rhythmic vitality of his playing, gives his performances an irresistible strut and swagger. Two more Gershwin albums are on the way from Wodehouse. 'S Wonderful...
...laboratory. Once in Nigeria, he agonized over whether his presence there made any difference at all. Then a farmer appeared, suffering signs of imminent heart failure. Collins dared a procedure he had never tried before, plunging a needle deep into the man's chest to draw off the fluid that was apparently pressing on the heart. "Dr. Collins," the patient said later after recovering, "I know you're wondering why you are here. I believe you were sent here just for me, because without you I would have died...
Start that toast with 502.5 fluid ounces of ginseng tonic, or make your own with $1,000 worth of the root itself: depending on the type you buy, one grand gets you 10 pounds of American white ginseng root, or 8.5 pounds of American red ginseng root, or five pounds of Chinese ginseng kivin root at Harnett's, Church and Brattle Streets...
...courts dismiss the accusations based on memory, then they are also dismissing the rights of all children, who are too often seen as helpless and therefore convenient victims; the testimony of psychiatrists and brain researchers, who say that memory can be buried; the possibility that the mind is fluid, better understood by its possessor than by lawyers. And they will be dismissing one of the lessons of Salem, too: that the power structure of the day, composed now as then of men, goes to great lengths to defend itself against assaults that would deprive it of power, property, authority...
...traditional metaphor for this is that of a mosaic. But Richard Rodriguez, the Mexican-American essayist who is a psalmist for our new hybrid forms, points out that the interaction is more fluid than that, more human, subject to daily revision. "I am Chinese," he says, "because I live in San Francisco, a Chinese city. I became Irish in America. I became Portuguese in America." And even as he announces this new truth, Portuguese women are becoming American, and Irishmen are becoming Portuguese, and Sydney (or is it Toronto?) is thinking to compare itself with the "Chinese city" we know...