Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion that dinosaurs and birds are related dates back over a century. In 1861, quarry workers near Solnhofen, Germany, uncovered the fossil of a pigeon-size creature. Its bone structure and teeth were similar to those of dinosaurs. Yet along with the bones, the 150 million-year-old limestone in which it was trapped had also preserved the unmistakable impressions of feathers and wings. It was ultimately decided that Archaeopteryx, as it was named, was a transitional animal, related to dinosaurs but well along the evolutionary pathway to modern birds...
...failure on personal life, combined with a feminist fantasy of zipless fulfillment. Instead of an absurdist Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? her tale of two unhappy couples at a fiasco of a dinner party resembles sketch comedy -- wacky whimsies stitched together, abasing an able cast. The one memorable notion: an abundance of unwanted vegetables flourishing everywhere inside, not outside, a crumbling country house...
Some of the distrust is understandable, given the tawdry history of earlier efforts to link biology and crime. A century ago, Italian physician Cesare Lombroso claimed that sloping foreheads, jutting chins and long arms were signs of born criminals. In the 1960s, scientists advanced the now discounted notion that men who carry an XYY chromosome pattern, rather than the normal XY pattern, were predisposed to becoming violent criminals...
...fits in more with other British writers who were "born in the old empire...People like Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri and Salman Rushdie...In the last ten years or so a lot of British writers have had a fix from another part of the world and have changed the notion of what constitutes British writing quite radically...
Hernandez-Gravelle said she believes many myths surround racism. Among them, she said, are the idea that racist incidents do not happen at places "like Harvard" and the notion that race relations discussions only exacerbate the problem...