Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrilla antiaircraft positions. Hoja Inatullah, 19, says he nearly died of asphyxiation, surviving only by wetting his blanket and breathing through it. "For four or five hours afterward, I had trouble breathing," he says. "My friends carried me to the bomb shelter, and I lay there spitting up black fluid." In such a conflict, justice can be harsh for captured invaders. Said a young guerrilla named Ismail: "We won't shoot them. Bullets are too expensive. Maybe we will stone them to death, or cut their throats, or throw them off a cliff." Despite heavy Soviet pressure, the resistance fighters...
FOOTNOTE:*The most familiar example of a phase change is the transformation, at 32 degrees F, of water from a fluid into crystalline...
Although Rosenberg says he never used the word, he was criticized for prematurely implying it. Dr. Charles Moertel of the Mayo Clinic argued that the technique was prohibitively expensive and that the side effects (including fever, fluid buildup and irregularities in kidney and cardiovascular function) were "unacceptably severe," and suggested that the press had overplayed the potential benefits...
...transferred the adrenal tissue directly into a C-shaped structure in the middle of the brain called the caudate nucleus, where dopamine exerts its primary effects. The Mexicans, by contrast, used surgical staples to anchor the cells onto the exterior of the caudate, which is continually bathed in cerebrospinal fluid. This nourishing bath may have helped the graft survive. In addition, Madrazo says, he transplanted "much more" tissue than did his predecessors...
...Javert's meditational Stars and Marius' farewell to his slain companions, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, became showstoppers. Nunn and Caird reconceived the staging, using one huge revolving turntable inside another -- on which sets come and go and characters move from one scene into the next -- to achieve a fluid, cinematic style. Also involved from the outset were Designer John Napier and Lighting Designer David Hersey, who provided the monumental look and characteristic haze that at key moments gives way to otherworldly bursts of white glare. Says Caird: "As to which of the creators are responsible for what...