Word: formal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steven Spielberg has a cute bald spot--a silver-dollar-size patch of arid land on the otherwise fertile scalp that sheathes his even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star...
...while you're interested in certain aspects of new work, you may not have an intuitive connection to it. Does it mean that at a certain point a kind of cultural, or in this case, age-specific analysis takes precedence over a more formal approach...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: More than 60 years after the U.S. Public Health Service launched its infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, President Clinton issued the government's first formal apology to survivors and their families. "What was done cannot be undone, but we can end the silence," Clinton said at an emotionally-charged White House ceremony. The 399 men from Macon County, Alabama who signed up for "free health care" only to be denied treatment for syphilis were treated "like guinea pigs," remembered 94-year-old survivor Herman Shaw, one of eight study participants still living. When the secret experiment finally ended...
...quitting from exhaustion or weakness. In reading period, there is the struggle to keep studying instead of falling asleep or going out to enjoy (what should be) nice weather. And through the rest of the year, there is the struggle to balance schoolwork with extracurricular activities, paper assignments with formal invitations...
...distinguished surgeon and bioethicist presents a kind of prequel: an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book--part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation--that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not religious in a formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, "We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws...