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...cold Chicago day in the late 1990s, physicist David Grier was fiddling around in his laboratory with a cheap piece of plastic and a laser. Grier and a graduate student named Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap" - a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. Multiple traps, used in tandem, could let the scientists play traffic cop on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts - removing bacteria from blood, for example. But first they had to make it work. For a year, Grier...
Another controversial paradox of the era, female empowerment through sexual authority, was illustrated in homages to Charlie’s Angels and Pam Grier. At least for the ladies, the paradox of simultaneous empowerment and objectification subtly prevailed, particularly in the striking Angels poses, a testament to “those strong, hot women who owned their sexiness...
...doubles, the Wildcats swept the Crimson, with the nation’s top-ranked pair of Cristelle Grier and Jessica Rush overtaking the No. 50 Bergman-Susanna Lingman duo by a margin...
...Honestly, we just didn’t play solid doubles at all,” Bergman said. “[Grier-Rush] was definitely a good team, but beatable—more than anything, we sat back and let Northwestern take control. To their credit they were very aggressive, and we couldn’t afford to start off really slowly against a team like that...
There is more to Word than pretty faces. Daniels, as the closet case gingerly entering the dating scene, has a likable awkwardness, and Pam Grier is convincing, if underused, as Bette's 12-stepping half sister. The show is beautifully shot, and it aspires to big ideas about modern mores and the nuances of sexual power and identity. That makes it the more disappointing when it fails those ambitions. For instance, journalist Alice (Leisha Hailey) is compiling a massive online grid of sexual encounters to show how nearly everyone is connected by a chain of eros. "I think...