Word: gazillions
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...that pretty much completes the short list of pleasures afforded by writer-director Alan Pakula's adaptation of John Grisham's gazillion-copy best seller. Mostly this is a movie about people getting in and out of cars, which either do or do not blow up when they turn on the ignition. They also talk on the phone quite a bit, usually in darkly lighted rooms, to callers who are not entirely forthcoming in their messages. From time to time, they are chased by nameless people who are boringly expert at dealing out sudden death...
Tucked in between Brine Sporting Goods and Calliope, the Florist's facade is dominated by an overflowing display of green. And white. And red. And orange. And brown. I counted something like ten different colors of plants and flowers in the storefront, plus about one gazillion different tones of said colors. The visual effect can be dumbfounding; in my notebook I have one helpless observation: "flowers everywhere...
Biologists, unlike physicists, are unaccustomed to gargantuan, gazillion- dollar research projects. So when American geneticists embarked on a $3 billion effort to map out all the hereditary information found on the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, they decided, like the proverbial tortoise, to take the slow and careful route. Plotting out a 12-year game plan, the geneticists subdivided the work among nine different laboratories so that eventually the scientists could pool their results in one highly detailed chart. Along the way, they have been trying to patent their discoveries, even before knowing precisely what their importance...