Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayer's stagings share space in Howard Cutler's handsome, structural set with four impressive short films by Tim Hunter, a brief slide sequence by David McClelland, and some fascinating footage taken by a recent American traveller to Hanoi. For once, mixed media is something more than convenient compromise. On this catholic stage, it does not seem improbable that Nathan Pusey and Che Guevara should meet to discuss the role of youth and the values of revolution, and in fact, in a dialogue excerpted from their writings, the two gentlemen seem occasionally to agree uncomfortably well...
...times the sea was steely purple, stained; at others, under a close warm rain sky, the no-color of dirty wash; choppy rows hurried in from the horizon to be delivered and disposed of in the lick and slide at the shore. Piet stopped to pick up angel wings, razor clam shells, sand dollars with their infallibly etched star and their considerate airhole for an inhabiting creature Piet could not picture...
...Chromosome patterns or "karyotypes" are usually made by taking white blood cells, growing them in the laboratory and dousing them with a weak salt solution. This explodes the cells, separating the chromosomes. These are stained, spread on a slide and photographed. From an enlargement, pairs of chromosomes are laboriously cut out, paper-doll fashion, lined up by size and shape in seven groups, and numbered from one to 22 (the "Denver classification"). X and Y are usually placed...
...definite effect in turning students from a more "idealistic" outlook on life to a more "pragmatic" one. Brainwork is what is needed to be on the top of the Harvard academic ladder, and these "personality suited" students place other values before a life of brainwork. Thus they slide down the Harvard grade ladder and hence the statistical bias. Admission to business school places less emphasis on high grades than admission to law or medical schools...
...power 20, which moved the boat out ahead by half a length. At this point, the bow man in Princeton's shell caught a crab, which immediately threw the entire boat down to port. In the panic to get the boat moving again, the number five man jumped his slide...