Word: realm
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...it’s a crude crossroads. One fork is toward the realm of perpetual self-seriousness, the other is more engaged irony,” he says...
...party line is that it?s at the CDC and in a lab in Russia, but it?s certainly within the realm of believability that it?s present in other labs as well. All of this is purely speculative, unfortunately...
...TIME: Hollywood? Kyoko: Certainly. There are many U.S. movies we admire -- Jackie Brown, the 007 series -- and we'd love to work in that realm. 20th Century Fox made us "honorary Bond girls" to promote its last film; the director of "Rush Hour" says he may want to cast us in the next installment [which may be partially set in Japan]. I would say the star we most admire is Sophia Loren. We have attended four Academy Awards shows, Cannes, and others, and we have seen her at some of them. She has an unbelievable aura...
...graces the halls of the Science Center, tucked next to Chemistry Lab 10. Despite the obvious love which has been poured into the artwork, however, one question lingers in the minds of the befuddled chemists who pass by every day—a question which normally resides outside the realm of scientific contemplation...
...11th utterly destroyed the buffer that separated our most horrific and surreal imaginings from the realm of possibility. Our dark storyteller was given free reign in the world of the conceivable and, predictably, gas masks, Cipro and cell phones began flying off the shelves. And, imagining even more previously unimaginable images, the American public was loath to once again trudge down the jetway onto what they perceived as suicidal cruise missiles. Even now, the airline industry reports business around 40 percent lower than this time last year...