Word: intactness
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...find heroes, and the makers of the 9/11 films have found a few. Clarke, in Against All Enemies, is the lonely sentinel begging a smug, slow-witted establishment to take al-Qaeda seriously. He's Frank Capra's Mr. Smith after 30 years in Washington, his stubborn zeal intact. Another species of hero is the lucky survivor; and as Schindler's List was not about the nearly 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis but about 1,100 who escaped, so World Trade Center focuses on two of the last victims evacuated alive after the big buildings collapsed...
...appropriately megalomaniacal fur coat and hat and tauntingly waving hamburgers under the noses of his soon-to-be captors. He is dragged into the girls’ underground room and departs stapled with raw meat, a werewolf on his scent. The creature takes the meat but leaves the singer intact to keep making outlandishly entertaining videos. —Elisabeth J. Bloomberg
...Women with large fibroids often experience unrelenting pressure on the bladder and menstrual bleeding heavy enough to cause anemia. Fibroids are the reason for 30% of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year in the U.S. and 30,000 myomectomies, surgeries that remove the tumors but leave the uterus intact...
...black men would surely tell you that racial profiling-in all its many, insidious forms-remains a frustrating, demoralizing and all-too-common experience. As Dave Chappelle noted to Oprah when explaining the racism he felt he encountered in show business, ?What is a black man without his paranoia intact?? Sadly, these days, still not much...
Coming off two straight losses on the road, the Harvard women’s lacrosse team returned to Jordan Field—the site of the team’s only victory this season—yesterday aiming to keep its perfect home record intact against the University of Connecticut. The squad’s losing streak was extended, however, as the Crimson (1-4) succumbed to the Huskies (1-3), losing 12-11. Tied at 11 late in the second period, both teams looked to make a defensive stop and leave enough time to notch the go-ahead score...