Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voice occasionally seems too thin. Julie Dixon seems less adept than the other two women in switching between being Marvin's high school sweetheart and being one of the chorus: while Loar and Kiley are distinctive as Marvin's wife and teacher and occasionally even let those roles seep into their chorus girl functions, it seems as though Dixon lets her chorus girl demeanor overtake her role as Marvin's high school sweetheart. Her voice is strong but her character colorless...
There is only one problem with this fabled success story: the rescuers may have arrived too late. No matter how quickly manufacturers halt the production of CFCs, billions of pounds of the chemicals already produced will continue to seep into the atmosphere and rise inexorably to attack the ozone layer. Worse, measurement after measurement since the mid-1980s has shown that ozone loss has been greater and more rapid than scientists predicted. Last month in Science magazine, researchers disclosed new satellite readings showing that in 1992 the average concentration of ozone in the upper atmosphere around the globe...
...produced, all of those. But, on current evidence, he did significantly more than run levels and read meters. Those albums share an occasional brotherhood of sound -- hard, lovely, otherworldly -- but more significant, they are each rounded with a dream, part funky and part fantastic, that makes them seep into the subconscious, then permeate the waking state. They are, in the title phrase from one of the splendid Dylan songs that Lanois produced, a Series of Dreams...
...toilet overflow Thursday night in the men's bathroom of the Coop flooded the fourth floor, causing water to seep through several of the store's lower ceilings...
...newly carved cave fills with air, drops of water seep in through the walls and ceiling. Minerals trapped in these trickles begin to precipitate out of solution, hardening into a stunning array of underground ornaments. Stalactites drip down from the ceiling. Stalagmites creep up from the floor. Miniature forests made of twisted branches of calcium carbonate stretch out from the walls. Many of the formations are so delicate that they can easily be destroyed by the presence of humans...