Word: misshapen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every Sunday afternoon at one o'clock, a solemn, slightly misshapen din lifts and breaks over the somnolent river houses. Abandoned, commanding, booming through the streets, timbred and shaped by the turn of the buildings, the Lowell House bells ring out in their own, odd beauty. Whether woken or wondering, distracted or listening, each of us residing below the Yard has been touched at some point by these instruments. Over time they have become an indelible part of the Harvard landscape...
...Like the oval egg, the novel can also resemble a slightly misshapen circle. Budnitz struggles to weave multiple narratives into a unifying whole, but the sense of centripetal completion fails as each new voice grows more allied with the increasingly amorphous world inside Budnitz's novel. Still, Budnitz has more than answered the requirements of techniques that a good novelist ought to engage. Thus, one can only hope that If I Told You Once, will have a twice, for Budnitz has the skills of a tremendous writer, and round two could be a knockout...
Chip mills are able to use smaller or misshapen trees that are unsuitable for furniture or other forest products, providing a market for previously unmarketable trees...
Since every gene holds the recipe for a vital protein, corrupt genes mean corrupt proteins: too much of one protein, too little of another, or a misshapen protein that doesn't function properly. The new generation of cancer drugs takes aim at these defective proteins, blocking them, disrupting them in myriad ways. Unlike old-fashioned chemotherapy drugs, the new substances don't poison the tumor--an approach that usually causes collateral damage to healthy cells. Instead, they aim to halt the processes that make a cancer cell act like a cancer cell in the first place...
...opening of Gattaca, like the rest of the movie, is an eye-teaser: against a backdrop of cool blue-gray, misshapen bits of matter drift like feathers, only to collect in an unidentifiable heap. Meanwhile, the credits appear in fragments: first the letters that make up the movie title--A, T, C and, more rarely, G--followed by the rest of the name. It's then that the significance of those four letters finally dawns upon you: Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine, the four bases that make up our genetic code. A zoom-out to a view of Ethan Hawke...