Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many students say that despite the social function of such organizations, they see no significant Latino cliques forming...
...most common ones are bipolar depression, or manic depression, and the more serious, less common problems of a schizophrenic type," Catlin says. "These students have illusions, hear voices, experience paranoia and don't function very well. They usually need time...
...into an outlaw. "He has told me that even if this does become a law, he would violate it," says Fieger. The problem is that once zealots claim the right to choose which laws they'll obey, all the underlying trust that permits professionals, and especially doctors, to function disappears...
...Robin Williams) and his uncle, a retired Army general (Michael Gambon) who wants to convert the plant to military-weapons production. Both are predictable types. Their employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...
...answers in a lively new treatise on design called THE EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS (Knopf; $24). In a lifetime, notes the author, the average adult will encounter 20,000 or more everyday objects, most of which are taken for granted. Petroski argues that form follows failure rather than function, meaning that the inadequacies of existing things have inspired inventors to see if they could do better. The author's message: considering its history, the humble paper clip is as much of an industrial miracle as the atom smasher...