Word: fold
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Devlin, 33, comes from a movie family (his father is a producer; his actress mother appeared in a '60s Star Trek episode, "Wolf in the Fold," as a princess killed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper); adapting Fred Allen's famous jape about television, he says, "Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood." He knows that movies are to steal from. "More than any other genre," Devlin says, "science fiction cannot deny what comes before it. So, when we did a science-fiction film, especially one like this, where we wanted to have fun, we said...
...support and religious conviction. Patients were asked separate sets of questions about their participation in social groups and the comfort they drew from faith. The two factors appeared to have distinct benefits that made for a powerful combination. Those who were both religious and socially involved had a 14-fold advantage over those who were isolated or lacked faith...
Edik Kovolev, 28, is an art student who lives in Krasnodar, a midsize agricultural town in southern Russia. Each summer he goes to Moscow to earn money to pay for his education by drawing caricatures of people who stroll past his tiny fold-up chair tucked next to the sidewalk in the capital's busy Arbat Street. "I'm not going to vote," he declares, voicing an attitude that seems to be shared by many of Russia's young people. "Yeltsin will win anyway, so I don't think my vote would make a big difference." Also, like some other...
...only concern [after the Bucknell loss] was that they might fold," Harvard coach Maureen Travers said. "But they came right back. They were determined to show that our loss to Bucknell was not our true level of play...
...Prodigy, the country's pioneer consumer online service. Frozen by a billion-dollar debt, the company watched helplessly as America Online and CompuServe blew past in an online explosion. By the time CEO Edward Bennett arrived last spring, he was left with a simple choice: reinvent the company or fold...