Word: slice
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Barraquer of Bogotá, Colombia, who for the past two decades has been performing a variety of delicate and complex corneal operations that he calls refractive keratoplasty (an operation on the cornea for optical reasons). In one procedure known as keratomileusis (cornea carving), the front of the cornea is sliced off with a high-speed vibrating blade, quickly frozen, and then reshaped on its underside by a lathe set by computer calculations. After thawing, the cornea slice is stitched back on the eye. To correct nearsightedness, the surgeon removes tissue from the center of the cornea, thereby flattening...
...devices shoot bursts of relatively weighty subatomic bullets, such as electrons (particles carrying a negative electric charge) or protons (which have a positive charge) that have been accelerated to nearly the speed of light. These bursts do not melt the surface of a target as lasers do, but slice right through...
...hour of outtakes, into a four-night NBC extravaganza, and last year he previewed several versions of Apocalypse Now before deciding which one he wanted-for now. Lucas rereleased American Graffiti with additional footage. Still, Coppola and Lucas are hardly the only directors to have joined the emerging slice-and-splice school: Stanley Kubrick cut 19 minutes from 2001: A Space Odyssey a week after its release in 1968, and three minutes from The Shining after its opening this May. Robert Altman planned an eight-hour Nashville saga for ABC, and Martin Scorsese hoped to restore many of the sequences...
...million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem is neurological, and something more. Percy writes: "There ... stands Will Barrett on the edge of a gorge in old Carolina, a talented agreeable wealthy man living in as pleasant an environment as one can imagine...
California voters also rejected the contoversial Proposition Nine, a proposal to slice state property taxes by 50 per cent...