Word: sixteener
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...grandmother means well, but I have to grit my teeth when the topic of dating comes up. I recently dated someone for sixteen months, and he visited my rural hometown after we had been together for a year. Afterwards, she e-mailed to say that she enjoyed meeting my “friend.” I’m not quite sure where the quotes came from, since she’s fairly tolerant and fully aware that we had been dating for a while. It’s not that big of a deal, but it grates...
...from the institute. According to the new research, dogs have about 19,300 genes. Human beings have about 22,000 genes. Broad Institute researchers are currently working to map an increasing number of mammal genomes, according to Lindblad-Toh. “We are sequencing eight, soon will be sixteen, different mammals at lower coverage, including the opossum,” she said. The Broad Institute, a joint venture of Harvard and MIT founded in 2003, received an additional $100 million in funding from philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad earlier this month...
...hard-nosed killer/mob lawyer, without any of the neurotic charm of “Gross Pointe Blank,” is a bit hard to stomach. One wonders what happened to that fun, lovable kid who played Anthony Michael Hall’s pal in “Sixteen Candles.” Instead of Minnie Driver (“Good Will Hunting”) as the love interest, we’re presented with Connie Nielson (“Gladiator”) who plays Renata, a strip club manager. Nielson’s overly seductive, annoyingly serious Renata...
...BRAT PACK COLLECTION The movie that elicited the term Brat Pack for a bunch of young actors was actually St. Elmo's Fire. This set of three films--The Breakfast Club, Weird Science and Sixteen Candles--should be named for writer-director John Hughes, who zeroed in on the light side of teen angst, or Molly Ringwald, his russet-haired muse. Hughes got the social pain of class rivalries, puppy lust and ineffectual parents, making it all funny and agreeable. Sixteen Candles is his Cinderella, The Breakfast Club his No Exit and Weird Science ... well, that one's just weird...
Karl Frey lets people play with his art. For Interchange, his new exhibit at Mather House’s Three Columns Gallery, Frey painted sixteen landscapes on Lego blocks. He then disassembled them and asked friends to recompose them, thus actively involving the viewers in the process of art-making. Suddenly, art was participatory, an experience that involves what Frey refers to in his work statement as the “perceptional patterns of the culture.” That culture and its concurrent style is a movement rooted in American pop art that aims to make art accessible...