Word: sliver
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When the trustees decided a decade ago that they could not manage without considerable additional space, they turned to Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel, architects whose work (sleek, handsome, rather restrained) is not exactly Wrightian. On the 35-ft. sliver of land behind Wright's museum, Gwathmey Siegel would build the Guggenheim an addition. Ever since, the firm has been accused by a slightly hysterical mandarin consensus of desecrating the Guggenheim, of wanting to make a toothpick from a piece of the True Cross; the first design, a huge tower that brazenly cantilevered a pale green box out over Wright...
...central calculation that Democrats and Republicans are now testing is whether it is possible to capture the presidency this fall with just their most ardent supporters plus a sliver of help from the independents, who seem increasingly devoted to Perot. Ultimately Bush and Clinton may have little choice: with Perot drawing most deeply from independents and matching Bush in national polls, it seems increasingly possible that the next President may win as little as 34% to 45% of the popular vote...
Cast members were poised in the middle of the audience with fog machines throughout the production, creating an interesting misty effect that enhanced the rather extra-terrestrial feel of the set. Several of the actors favored the spaceman look, with sliver shoes and ling-snouted plastic guns...
...pincer makes a clean slice through the quivering tissue, simultaneously sealing the wound by laying down a triple row of surgical staples. A few more snips and the task is complete. Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, draws a 10-cm-long sliver of lung through a finger-size hole in the patient's side and sends it for biopsy...
There was no one inside the building at the time of the fire, but two firefighters were injured while battling the blaze. Captain of Rescue Steven Boyle was treated for a sliver of glass embedded in his lower leg and fire fighter Kevin Kelly received slight injuries after he put on his helmet, into which glowing embers had fallen, according to Murphy...