Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loft painter's drop cloth. "Everything is so much the couture look, the expensive look, now it's time to rethink again, to find something different," Miyake says. Even in times of uncertainty, as now, Miyake conclusively demonstrates that there is always one sustaining direction for a designer: inward...
...least realistic branch of performed literature. Movies and TV thrive on you-are-there naturalism but typically falter when they ask audiences to see more complex layerings of space, time and memory. The screen, large or small, is the place for action. The theater is the nonpareil place for inward thought outwardly expressed. Audiences can witness recollection, reverie or fantasy -- or, as surprisingly few writers have explored, outright madness...
Diver Jenny Greene earned Harvard's only gold in individual competition, winning the 1-meter contest with a score of 486.9. Greene trailed Penn State's Elizabeth O'Keefe after four dives, but received the best scores of the evening with her fifth dive, an inward one-and-a-half somersault in the pike position...
...quarter's bottom line, Merck plows a higher chunk of its revenues into research and development (11%) than any rival drug company. Right now it has 50 new medicines in the works. And while other corporate chieftains spend much < of their time prowling for acquisitions, Vagelos prefers to look inward, spurring the research effort, boosting productivity and instilling a keenly competitive spirit...
...flavor and psychological sources of his genius. Much like Mozart in Amadeus, this sophisticated thinker seems suspended emotionally in adolescence. As Turing, Jacobi speaks beautifully, zealously, of his passion for science but stutters and splutters when meeting other people. All the energy of his psyche seems to have gone inward. He remains romantically fixated on a long-dead schoolmate who is a living, palpable presence in the play. In Jacobi's haunted portrayal, giggly boyishness not only coexists with soaring intellect but is essential to it: learning to live within the codes of adulthood would shut down this...