Word: latching
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...Tricia has been wearing his ring since Christmastime, and Eddie's curriculum vitae (he was once one of Nader's Raiders) has been served up in plentiful quantity in the press. The day will be June 12. The place: the White House. The minister: the Rev. Edward Latch, Methodist chaplain of the House of Representatives. The couple will spend the summer in Manhattan, where Eddie has a temporary job, then go back to Harvard for his final year...
...follows a heavy rehearsing and concert schedule. Says Drummer Shrieve: "When we don't have anything to do, we go to somebody's house and play music. We don't consider ourselves a rock-and-roll group even," he adds. "We're street kids. We latch on to our environment, make it into music...
Most scientists agree that the 1,000 or so known enzymes owe their prowess to their so-called "active sites," small areas that apparently latch on to specific molecules and guide them together to produce a chemical reaction. But this explanation fails to account for the remarkable speedup that the enzyme contributes to the process...
...terms of vouge, yes. You always latch onto the word that is most dramatic, since Madison Avenue has trained us for that, in order to make an image sear the brain. To some degree, "black" has done that. Unfortunately, I think that white society has taken the use of the word "black" so literally that hundreds of actors who, like me, don't happen to be darkcomplexioned, and who in a T.V. commercial or on a stage, don't necessarily read "black," because there's nothing "racial" or "Negroid" (and I mean those words in the derogatory sense...
...Albert DeSalvo,* a lumpish schizophrene with a wife and two kids. Most of the time DeSalvo (Tony Curtis) is a brooding but law-abiding mechanic. But there are moments when he turns into another self, a compulsive, soft-spoken psychopath who can kill at the drop of a door latch...