Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Short Eyes Shot at "the Tombs" house of detention in New York City, this film offers a brutally honest slice of prison life, and it is completely devoid of the mawkish hand wringing that has characterized most other American jailhouse movies. There are no bad-guy guards to hiss at, no latter-day Birdmen of Alcatraz to root for. Writer Miguel Pinero, who served five years at Sing Sing for armed robbery and is currently under indictment for other crimes, asks the audience to see his characters for exactly what they...
...theoretical level recombinant DNA experimentation is highly sophisticated. Procedures developed in the last five years use special enzymes to slice up and reassemble pieces of genes in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. By mixing DNA from viruses, bacteria, and animals, molecular biologists can create novel hybrid organisms. Fear about the creation and accidental release of dangerous new forms of viruses and bacteria has been one focus of the recombinant DNA debate...
...worry now, at least from the standpoint of the U.S. carriers, is that the lower fares will slice into the lines' profits at the very time when they need money to replace aging air fleets. But Laker's heart does not bleed for the big boys. Through their governments, they have thrown one obstacle after another in his way. Says Laker: "The big carriers are now united in their determination to put us out of business. They have slashed their own fares, changed their own rules and granted themselves all the advantages denied to us under the terms...
...Secret Service clerks. All are on a public payroll-and all have connived to be simultaneously on the public dole. Last week, in the latest crackdown against a special breed of welfare cheater, 164 civil servants in Chicago and New York City were indicted for double-dealing an extra slice of the taxpayers' pie. Said U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner in Chicago: "The problem is immense. There is an astonishing lack of respect for law from public employees. We rest our whole Government on integrity, and I consider this to go to the very foundations of our Government...
...hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike three. It is the agony of the minor leagues, letting the sweat trickle down your back in a near-empty stadium in western Massachusetts, struggling to keep your head down on the ground balls as the fourth inning oozes imperceptibly...