Word: rim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rimée: And so, my friend, what do you think of the job this fellow Peter Brook has done with your Carmen...
...conversation between Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet, overheard in the smoking room of the Parnassus Club...
...highlight of the conference, however, was a rare joint appearance by Watson and Crick. Both looked appropriately oracular: Watson with his aureole of thinning hair, Crick with a rim of silver. Still, there were flashes of the brash biochemists who had once electrified the scientific world. Watson displayed the pointed wit that he employed so deftly in his gossipy, irreverent 1968 history, The Double Helix (it began with the line "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood...
While the master planners have L.A. sprawling off obediently to the desert, the metropolitan economy is supposed to be juiced up by more high-tech industry and a new era of trade with Asia and Latin America. "The growth in the Pacific rim has just begun," says Planner Mark Pisano. "It's going to take off like an exponential curve in two to four decades...
...right now, it is the foreign residents of the Pacific rim, hundreds every day, who take off?take off and land in L.A. Blithe Angelenos cannot afford to depend on luck and the vague promise of another economic boom, 20 or 40 years hence, to take care of the newcomers and smooth over problems. L.A., nature's charmed city, must begin to look after itself...