Word: seamless
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...Regina Nacro presents an enigmatic and surprising thirteen minute film. Tiga, a Burkinabi farmer, hears a woman calling for help. This simple premise yields a fabulous commentary on cultural differences and responses. "A Certain Morning" was the first film created by a Burkinabi woman. Nacro's creation is a seamless presentation of an incredible tale...
DIED. MAXENE ANDREWS, 79, singer; in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Reduce World War II to three voices, and the choices are obvious: the rant of Hitler, the rumble of Churchill . and the single, seamless sound blended from the warble of the Andrews Sisters: Maxene, Patti and LaVerne. The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career...
...poetry, Atwood manages to avoid the sentimental preachiness so evident in an openly feminist writer such as Marge Piercy. Part three of Morning in the Burned House takes up explicitly feminist and female concerns, but Atwood's transition between the personal and the political is seamless, maintaining a crucial, delicate balance...
...that consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high-frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, according to Crick and Koch, just as the tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex and seamless sound of a symphony orchestra. The concept is highly speculative, Crick acknowledges in his book The Astonishing Hypothesis (which carries the ironic subtitle The Scientific Search for the Soul). "If you think I appear to be groping my way through the jungle," he writes, "you are right...
...speech titled, "Building on the Violence Against Women Act: New Challenges for a Safer America," Shalala advocated a "seamless system" which would protect women in danger of abuse...