Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD released the following description of the two suspects yesterday: One is a 5'7" black male of medium build, 18-20 years of age, who was unshaven and wearing a green jacket with a hood. The second suspect is a 5'10" black male of medium build, 18-20 years of age, who was wearing a white cloth sweater with a hood...
...Thirty years down the line, we'll have identified a hundred or so genes that predispose to many common diseases," predicts Dr. Leroy Hood, chairman of the molecular-biology department at the University of Washington. "So we'll be able to do a genetic fingerprint showing your potential future health history, and we'll have preventive measures that can circumvent whatever limitations your genes impose on you." Looking even further ahead, Haseltine anticipates the use of genes "to regenerate, replace and repair what's broken...
Sliding down hill and up dale on a T-bar, dangling from a helicopter's ladder (a proudly prolonged sequence), landing on the hood of tiny sports car--you have to admire their nerve...
...TWELVE YEARS and 39 weeks, Peck's book has told the readers of America, the same culture that nurtured the catharsis-via-Oprah method of personal problem resolution and the so-called "cult of victim-hood," to stop complaining about how tough their lot is, get their respective chins up and just deal. "Life is difficult," as the book's mantra claims, but from Week 663, the view is probably a lot rosier...
...silent stars, like Buster Keaton, swam outside the Hollywood mainstream. Fairbanks, though, was Hollywood--in his itch for control (he produced his films and wrote most of them), in his loving to be loved, in his taste for pricey grandeur. He ordered the biggest sets (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood), the highest budgets (The Thief of Bagdad), the first epic film shot wholly in Technicolor (The Black Pirate). At times this largeness slowed the films' pace; you wait an hour for the stunts and the fun to kick...