Word: missing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the Aurora Borealis streaking the midnight sky, a glowing apparition lights up the stage. It's radiant, wispy and ethereal. But you're so focused on the intricate moves of the dancers onstage that you almost miss the ghostlike figure before it vanishes a few seconds later. Was it just a dream...
...alive and in the flesh. I must emphasize "alive" since I have unwittingly forgotten to share a morbid fear that has developed in the deep recesses of my mind. Somehow or other I had convinced myself that due to the how many times I have managed to miss seeing Bob Dylan, I was bound to die the same way, or from the more accurate perspective, that he would die before I would get to see him in concert...
...School will miss a truly extraordinary teacher and alumnus. The world will miss a truly great human being," said Robert C. Clark, the school's dean, in a written statement...
...clinical applications for this process at the moment," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "this is an important basic research advance." Scientists have been able to turn normal human cells into cancerous cells before by using chemicals or X-rays. "But this has been a hit-or-miss proposition," says Gorman. "The new laboratory process will help scientists understand more clearly what are the genetic steps." This is important because cancer cells exhibit so many genetic changes that scientists are at present not sure which changes are cause and which are effect. The precise procedures used to create the laboratory...
...depends on the artists. In A Selection, which debuted in New York City recently, the members of Pilobolus team up with children's authors Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks to compress the ultimate nightmare into an indelibly fearful fable about a troupe of traveling players who miss the last train out of Nazi Germany. Otis Cook gives the performance of a lifetime as a lewdly smirking stranger dressed in death-camp gray who meets them at the station. The music is by Hans Krasa and Pavel Haas, two composers who died in Auschwitz; and the set, by Sendak...