Word: latching
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...researchers are getting closer--just a little--to curing the common cold. An experimental remedy called tremacamra seems to cut the severity of cold symptoms in half, with no bothersome side effects. When sprayed in the nose six times a day, tremacamra blocks the site where cold viruses latch onto cells. Don't toss the tissues yet. Tremacamra was tested on only one cold virus; there are hundreds more out there...
...almost two o'clock in the morning, and Brown, who shaved off all his hair and his beard last week because he needed a "fresh start," is stretched out on the carpet in his family's living room, trying to explain the inexplicable: What made Klebold latch on to Harris? "Eric was an incredible individualist," he begins slowly. "Charismatic, an eloquent speaker, well read, the kind of guy who could bulls___ for hours about anything and be witty and brilliant." There was no sign of this erudition on Harris' website, but maybe he was role playing in those days...
...called Katz for advice, and we decided I should latch onto the campaign of Bob Smith, the ultra-conservative Senator from New Hampshire, who is such a long shot that he didn't even garner the endorsement of the other ultra-conservative Senator from New Hampshire. While Smith holds absolutely none of the same views I have (except that there should be a fifth branch of the military, "the Space Force"), Katz and I determined that Smith was the only one likely to return my calls...
...sense of increasing complication. There is also a distinct lack of narrative cohesion. We are never really brought close to the trials and the truth commissions--personal reflections or individual experiences are limited especially in the first few chapters, kept very short and giving us very little to latch on to. This brevity makes it difficult at times to keep reading...
...traditions she learned while living with Karl's parents, though she herself is not Jewish. Meanwhile, everyone else in the novel seems just as cold and selfish as Karl, or perhaps just as desperate, and so as readers we are left hanging without a single character we want to latch...