Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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starring Danny Glover, Ray Liotta...
Glover, as a U.S. green beret commander, squares off against up-and-coming green beret leader Ray Liotta. The two disagree over how to handle relations with a mountain village on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and while they are off on a scouting mission, a group of Viet Cong enter the village and punish the locals for helping Americans by shooting their elephant...
...largest. In Geneva, Duboule and his colleagues tracked the activity of four Hox genes in the budding feet of embryonic mice and found precisely this pattern. By contrast, studies showed that in the zebrafish, the Hox genes switch off earlier, perhaps to ensure that a flexible fin ray (useful for swimming) will form in the place of feet. Duboule speculates that if these genes could be tricked into staying on just a bit longer, the fins of the zebrafish might sprout appendages suggestive of primitive feet...
...imaginable head. Massacre in Korea, 1951, asserts continuity by quoting Goya and thus morosely pointing out that the disasters of war only recur. The cluster of gun barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons, more like ray guns than rifles. Their odd shapes, and the robotic look of the soldiers, suggest that Picasso had also been looking at American sci-fi comic strips. It isn't clear who the killers are, and the naked victims don't look at all Asian; every Marxist in France (which...
...exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then just wait for the women who set fire to abusive men, the attack of the giant manta ray, and the general's daughter and the private who are blown up by a war protester's bomb while making love in a parked...