Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kieslowski creates ingenious images of the blue glass bead chandelier that is Julie's only reminder of her past life because it used to hang in her daughter's bedroom. He transforms a standard swimming pool into a sapphire lagoon, surrounding Binoche with a sort of liquid embodiment of creativity and imagination. The original score by Zbigniew Preisner exists as a work of art separate from the film. With riveting crescendos and crashes, the music monitors Julie's emotional trauma and captivates the audience...
Transistors, liquid crystals and magneticresonance imaging are just a few applied productsderived from basic science, says Franklin. Shesays a cessation of basic research would thereforebe "a little scary...
Chen Lu, 16, is the first skater of consequence to come out of China. Born into a family of athletes - her father was a member of the national hockey team - she nonetheless learned much about her art from videotapes. She has a liquid style and a command of the ice beyond her years. So far, she has proved to be no more than competent at the crucial jumps, and at times her programs have been more dutiful than sparkling. But this is a newcomer to international competition, emerging from a country with no skating tradition. She has gained experience...
Dissolved in a test tube, the essence of life is a clear liquid. To the naked eye it looks just like water. But when it is stirred, the "water" turns out - to be as sticky as molasses, clinging to a glass rod and forming long, hair- thin threads. "You get the feeling this is really different stuff," says Dr. Francis Collins in his molecular-biology laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. Collins heads a mammoth effort to catalog the library of biological data locked in those threads, a challenge he compares, not inaccurately, with splitting the atom or going...
...laboratory at the University of Southern California, Dr. W. French Anderson looks at the same clear liquid and sees not a library but a pharmacy. Anderson's goal, his obsession, is to find the wonder drugs hidden in that test tube. Someday, he says, doctors will simply diagnose their patients' illnesses, give them the proper snippets of molecular thread and send them home cured...