Word: mammothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 to the moon...
This fascinating figure is the subject of a meticulously researched and elegantly written biography by Edmund White. Despite Genet's mammoth size and its tendency to wander from its subject, the book is never boring. White simply writes too well to let our attention stray. His sidetrips are always rewarding and his sense of his subject's life and literature compelling throughout...
Crowned by a geometric lattice, The Linkmanages to exploit the site, a negligible patch ofland between two mammoth buildings, to itsaesthetic potential. "In some places, buildingsthat link other buildings can be designed in a waythat helps define residual space or creates newspaces," says Collins. "If that's donesensitively, then those buildings can not onlyphysically link programs, but they can actuallybring a new amenity to the campus that didn'texist before...
...Absolutely. What just a few months ago was the seed of an idea in the fertile soil of my mind has since grown into a mammoth, bloodthirsty beast with an insatiable appetite that devours others of its own species...
Despite our less than spectacular experience, Rosalita's does offer promise, especially as an alternative to those mammoth lines down the block. It's worth the trip just to have Lora's chili and the picnic bar (cornbread), and you don't even come out smelling like a chain-smoker's fried chicken cook...