Word: gaseous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main-character's-big-secret scene, the shock-of-love-interest-at-betrayal/breathless-reconciliations scene, even a sappy speech about identity that Al Franken's Stuart Smalley could have written. After the vicious stand-up comic scene and another superbly funny nightmare sequence (again, alas, tainted with a gaseous joke or two), the movie simply gets tiresome. It's as if the movie's taking a collective funny potion now and then, having enormously concentrated effects, and then abating, painfully. Even Murphy's Buddy Love fizzles toward...
...planets, few astronomers doubt they are out there. If other solar systems do contain Earthlike worlds, says NASA exobiologist Michael Meyer, at least some should fall into the "habitable zone"--the region, governed by a planet's distance from its star, where water is liquid rather than solid or gaseous. "The good news," he says, "is that if our solar system is typical, there's a 50% chance that a planet will be in the right zone...
People who knew him in the '40s and '50s remember that Kline liked to talk about Gericault and Velazquez, about old silver and 18th century political cartoons, rather than the gaseous rodomontade of "tragic chaos" and "existential risk" that got loaded onto Abstract Expressionism by such artists as Barnett Newman and such critics as Harold Rosenberg. In short, he was very interested in style, a suspect idea then but one that his paintings are none the worse for raising. We can't see Kline the way the art world did 40 years ago, when critics wrote about his "desperate shriek...
Hare has granted all his characters humanizing histories and eccentricities; his actors, particularly Davies and Kotz, respond with richly wayward performances, and his play transcends its -- as it were -- parochial subject matter. Without resorting to gaseous big-think, Racing Demon is a sharp-edged, metaphorical study of the way confused institutions and their loyalists befuddle and betray one another in the age of ambiguity...
...team is presently working on developing an active sampler which would force air through a filter rather than base its measurements on passive gaseous diffusion. An active sampler would be more sensitive than its passive counterpart by collecting a good sample in less time, according to Koutrakis...