Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right dosage for children," the girls' foster mother recalls. "They told us to hold out. But by the time she got accepted, it was too late [for Tanya's sister]." In February, Tanya started combination therapy with ritonavir and has since added seven pounds to her 75-lb. frame. The popular sixth-grader now feels well enough to have sleepovers at a friend's house and go on school field trips...
...hospital staff and machinery for all his bodily functions, his brain remained unscathed. He soon discovered that the only muscle still under his control was his left eyelid. By telegraphing a series of blinks, Bauby let his nurses know that his mind was alive and well inside its immobile frame. They responded by reciting a special alphabet to him with the understanding that Bauby would blink at letters he wanted written down. Repeating the process resulted in words, sentences and entire discussions...
...accept his heavenly portrayal--and his subsequent spectacular descriptions of the Beast, Armageddon, the Last Judgment and Christ's final triumph--as the literal truth? Most scholars today regard his heaven, at least, as symbolic and mystical, its images painstakingly retrieved from the Old Testament and reorganized to frame an allegorical argument rather than an actual detailed reality of the next world. The same applies to hundreds of other heavenly visions generated by various holy men and women in the next two centuries that were eventually excluded from Scripture but some of which nonetheless exerted influence on early Christians...
...then "look" at himself through touch. On first viewing the work this explanation seems undermined by a blind person's simple ability to touch his own face. Why worry about getting your eyebrows and facial hair stuck in an uncomfortable mirror? But then at the bottom of the frame we notice a key to the piece, its title embossed in backwards letters, like the "mirror writing" in Da Vinci's notebook. "Blind Mirror" enables a blind subject to experience the alterity and reversal of a normal glass mirror. The body is "seen" outside itself and reversed, not from left...
...frame all of the really big questions about what happens in the disease process in terms of what happens to specific molecules," he said...