Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tailed the dogged daily routine too long. Says he: "I would like to work end to end on something." Though he plans to spend more time on Shoe and the featherbrained journalists who work for the Treetops Tattler Tribune, MacNelly is hardly going out on a limb: started less than four years ago, the strip is already syndicated in 650 newspapers...
From the beginning of his junior year, through the following summer, and during the fall term of his senior year. Mahoney worked at a company that makes prostheses--artificial limbs. Missing a leg from birth, he calls his own artificial leg "pretty much a natural limb to me," but his frustration that the limb could not be used in the ocean led him to become involved with the artificial-limb company, first as a spectator, then as an employee...
Ultimately, he hopes, a limb usable both in land and on water will be fashioned. And though he stresses he is unsure what he will do with himself after returning to Calcutta, he says he will maintain an interest in the project "because it's something I can appreciate more than other people...
...disease was, for the five years of this book. a minority one. She simply worked on a hunch. albeit one in accord with many observations. but still just a vision. But while she has been proved correct in some ways, most scientists do not put themselves out on a limb as Dr. Brito did. Brito bravely defends her attitude. "To be frightened of making mistakes is to be in prison. But no matter how appealing, she is an anomaly in a world where most scientists (especially young ones) are afraid to take risks. to pursue initiatives that might...
...movie lets us down when it could be scariest. The cache of corpses the monster has stored looks like a rubber limb collection from a joke shop. And, most heinous of all its crimes, it succumbs to the nouveau-horror trend of the 1970's; rather than leave us feeling all was in jest, or solved, as Hitchcock or Agatha Christie would, the movie ends with one of those "You thought it was safe, huh?" twists which is now a DePalma cliche. By then, we've started rooting for the monster...