Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly appropriate ones. As the Fairies spin and twirl, the mere bits of colored netting covering their bodysuits quickly become tangled and difficult to see. In addition, both the Spring and Summer Fairies wear all-green ensembles, while the Winter Fairy and the Fairy Godmother herself have costumes in pale blue. While this is not a major flaw, it does make distinguishing between characters all the more difficult...
...that, deep down in their heart of hearts, many science majors have similar, if less strongly expressed, feelings. Of course this inter-concentration rivalry is a two-way street. Humanities majors (and indeed probably much of the general public) tend to view their more math-and-sciencey counterparts as pale, soul-less sorts who shun the light and prefer the company of machines to that of humans. So we can see that the schism between science and the humanities is not an imagined...
...costumes and sets for Le Corsaire were stunning. The bazaar was brightly decorated, with a backdrop of towering mosques. The pale cream buildings matched the pomp and brilliance of the harem women's and merchants' attire. The pirates' lair was set in a misty blue lagoon: one almost expected to see a little mermaid appear out of the ocean. The scenes with the life-size ship moving across the stage were fun to watch although the men who pushed it across had the cameo appearance with their shoes peeking out from beneath...
...still decades away from the prospect of creating human beings by injecting the DNA of a living person into an unfertilized egg. The challenges overcome by Dr. Wilmut pale in comparison to the obstacles presented by primates and people. Even optimistic scientists concede that creating Albert Einstein II is still a distant prospect (Never mind that Einstein is dead and cloning dead people will be even harder that duplicating their live counterparts...
...definitive novel on the chaotic collision between reader and creator remains Nabokov's Pale Fire. But Duncker, 45, who teaches at a Welsh university, turns Hallucinating Foucault into something more than an academic thriller. And the questions she leaves unanswered are of more than academic interest...