Word: silver
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Evil has many faces in Nicky Silver's new iron-toothed comedy, but who is Silver's real devil? There are at least four strong candidates by the time the bodies stop piling up. There is the father, Arthur Duncan (Dennis Creaghan) who neglected his son, slept around to spite his wife and molested his daughter, Emma, throughout her childhood, leaving her short and long term memories permanently repressed. Or maybe the mother Grace Duncan (Marian Mercer) who molested her son, Todd (Christopher Collet), driving him to the street where he contracts AIDS. Or for that matter, the family friend...
...play's focus is John, a sort of Holden Caulfield for the "Silver Spoons" set, and his unrequited passion for his longtime friend Lisa. Rejecting the complicated poetics of the Petrachan lover...
...whose inventors won the 1993 Nobel Prize, is a sort of molecular copying process that zeros in on and amplifies a particular region of DNA. The differences at that site can then be distinguished through specialized probes that tiger a color change or through gel electrophoresis followed by a silver stain...
TEXAS: Back in 1988, Ann Richards seemed to have the Bush family number. Her comment that the Republican presidential candidate was born "with a silver foot in his mouth" gave a lively preview of what, by most accounts, has been an entertaining and competent governorship. And yet with the most recent polls ! awarding her only a two-point lead over Bush's eldest son George W., Richards' humor has sounded increasingly strained...
Over the years, bridge players in the ACBL, accumulate master points by winning tournaments. Eventually, they reach various plateaus and become life masters, bronze life master, silver life masters...