Word: gish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...award. Resplendently slim in a petaled silk organza gown by Arnold Scaasi, Taylor, 54, arrived (45 minutes late, typically) to take her seat in a box next to her mother Sara Taylor, 90, and listen to testimonials by the likes of Roddy McDowell, Jane Powell, Mike Nichols and Lillian Gish. "She is herself an occasion," exclaimed longtime Friend McDowell, "a bona fide movie star, a national treasure." To prove that point, 70 minutes of highlights from 23 of her films were shown, starting with The White Cliffs of Dover (made when she was twelve), finishing with Between Friends (made three...
...Bomby, as well as in The Plain Truth, a fundamentalist magazine, creationists argue the beetle could not possibly have evolved separate chambers of chemicals that, in the event of a genetic misstep, would have blown the insect up. A prominent member of the Institute for Creation Research, Duane Gish, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, contends the beetle would not have any use for its storage, temperature and aiming facilities until they were completely formed. Says he: "I would challenge Dr. Eisner to sketch out how an ordinary beetle could evolve into a bombardier...
...week, sunrise to sunset. Along the way, Griffith practically invented the autocratic personality of film director. On the set he tended to treat actors as children, looking down his "fine, cantilevered nose," as Lionel Barrymore put it. He was not above firing a gun near Lillian and Dorothy Gish when those teen-agers were having their problems miming fear...
...scripts and performers was acute, his ideas often bold and original, and his eloquence-imparted in a notorious whisper that seemed to compel attention-galvanizing. "I never heard anyone talk about the theater with the intelligence and the excitement and the interest that that man had," said Lillian Gish, who returned from Hollywood to star in Harris' 1930 staging of Uncle Vanya. He brought off such notable productions as The Green Bay Tree (1933), Our Town, in its world premiere (1938) and The Heiress...
...most widely held misconceptions, for example, is that dolphins have an authentic language. The mammals do exchange clicks and whistles in isolated laboratory tanks. But Sheri Lynn Gish, a Smithsonian research associate, points out that although the calls made by dolphins in captivity show definite patterns, it is not known if the patterns constitute a language. Moreover, says Gish, dolphins have not been studied in the open sea, where they may really communicate by nudges and scrapes...