Word: slicings
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...having fun," says "Scoop" Jackson. "I'm speaking my mind." A huge picture of Seattle is spread across his wall, and there is Grand Coulee Dam at night, and his coffee table is a slice of a Western tree. He is an easy and sensible man. Tougher than his exterior. There is a sameness about Jackson that plagues him. For so long he has been the champion of the aircraft industry. "Mr. Boeing." Somehow he is that image of the perpetual proponent of military preparedness. There is something of mothballs about it: cold warrior in the year...
Some molecular biologists envisage using laser beams to slice through DNA molecules at desired points, burning out faulty genes. These would then be replaced by segments of DNA tailored in the test tube to emulate a properly functioning gene and introduced into the body as artificial?and beneficial?viruses...
...stage piece by piece until the hero is left on a small island. His use of visual puns and slapstick is very effective. The director does, however, make an unwarranted use of a New Theater style beginning. The play is meant to start off as a slow and sleepy slice of traditional realism and gradually snowball into chaos. Lasky's use of an unconventional beginning undermines this potential effect...
...indictment, checks were made out to "cash" to tap the funds of Labor's Non-Partisan League, the U.M.W.'s political arm created by John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman. The funds were then allegedly transferred to political candidates in the guise of personal contributions. The biggest slice, $30,000, went to a 1968 Democratic fund-raising dinner for Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey...
...interesting spectacle. The conference room was the gymnasium of Catholic University, its pictures of former basketball greats temporarily taken down in favor of large red on white signs demanding immediate withdrawal from Southeast Asia. In the back of the room, on the right, you could get a slice of baloney or American cheese between two pieces of bread for thirty-five cents, or get a coke for a quarter. People were starting to get pissed. "Shit, in Ann Arbor, they had all this stuff free, they didn't try to rip you off. That was a real people's conference...