Word: glassing
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...characters are often juxtaposed to reveal the dualities that exist within the scientific world, sometimes fueled by overwhelming outside pressure. Sandy Glass, one of the directors, brilliantly raises funds for the lab, but his “motives were not entirely pure.” Marion Mendelsohn, the other director, masterfully grooms the young incoming scientists, but is too conservative and very seldom takes any risks. Robin is an ambitious scientist derailed by her obsession with trying to dig up evidence against Cliff, and Cliff is an obsessed scientist derailed by his ambition...
...Harold Wilcox, a respected clergyman in the area, founded the school in 1999 and procured an old church to house it. With its antique stained-glass windows and intricate woodworking, it was not a traditional learning environment by any means, but a sanctuary - figuratively and literally - for children who sometimes had to dodge bullets on their way to public school...
...Gehry was on hand-along with the mayor of Paris and the minister of culture-to present the model of his "cloudlike" glass building. "The garden brought to mind Marcel Proust and Remembrance of Things Past," Gehry told the crowd of journalists. "I could picture him there with his friends. And in this garden, which is for children, the idea of making a strong, formal gesture seemed inappropriate." So a glass cloud that will appear to be floating over a reflecting pool will be constructed. The projected date of completion is end of 2009, beginning...
...remedy to places with masculine names? Why, of course, locking glass cases featuring rotating displays about the history of women at Harvard. (I think my local library in Montana has the same type of approach to celebrating Black History Month...
...Flavor Flav, formerly of Public Enemy, with 20 women whom he calls by nicknames like Bubblez, Hoopz, and Miss Latin because his drug use has led to memory loss.…Tun a state-of-the-art Beverly Hills gym while coping with lovers who sometimes throw glass at them:Who doesn’t love Jackie, the openly gay trainer at the center of Bravo’s “Workout?” She’s cute, she’s witty, and sometimes, at the very end of an episode, she even manages...