Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, his insistence on repetition beats his jokes to death. The running gag of the show is the neurotic cockney maid Edith, who is unable to perform her duties at a normal pace. To clear the breakfast trays she needs a running start, and Ruth spends the duration of the play trying to slow her down. The triviality of this detail is magnified enormously as it is repeated, endlessly. Also distracting is the number of times Charles visits the liquor cabinet and meticulously makes dry martinis--stirred, not shaken. The pace of the plot is not quick enough to keep...
During the normal school year, children who are part of the house's afterschool program usually arrive at the house at 2:30 p.m. and stay until 5:30, doing their homework, hanging out and eating snacks. Vacation time turns the afterschool program into a daylong affair that begins at 8:30 a.m. and lasts until 5:30 p.m. During this time, the house assumes full responsibility for feeding the students, serving three meals...
When finished, the normal six layers which should be present in the cortex were absent and "the distribution of cells seemed random at first," Tsai says...
...mutants, which were seemingly normal at first, became consistently abnormal when grown...
With about two weeks off before the tournament begins, it would be normal for any coach to worry about players losing focus and fitness. But coach Weiss sees the break as a perfect opportunity to make sure his team is prepared for the upcoming tournament...