Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cherimoya. Jicama. Loquat. Malanga. Tamarillo. Ceriman. Carambola. Chayote. Mammee. Pomelo. Kiwano. Yuca. At first glance, the names seem to be the language of a mystical incantation. In fact, they could be a shopping list of produce to be purchased at the supermarket...
Honey I'm not really sure I want you going to Europe this summer...It just doesn't seem to be a good idea...
...movie doesn't seem to know how to treat what one expects to be its central focus--the nuclear testing that its created as backdrop. Vague references are made to it throughout the movie, and the movie's climax is a huge explosion. One wishes, like Rose's step-father, that one could see more of the glamorized military intelligentsia. This is probably the same desire that many Las Vegans had in the 1950s. However, they had to live their lives, as boring as they might have been. You don't have to see this movie...
Science, however, is not as incomprehensible as it may seem. If the average reporter following the medical beat made even the slightest attempt to grasp the concepts at play, the average reader would be correspondingly better informed. And thus science and research would become less of a mystery and more of an accepted and well understood field, more along the lines of politics than magic...
Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration was "the Crocodile...