Word: specimens
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Harry Truman seemed a dismal specimen right into middle age--a failed haberdasher condemned to live with his dreadnought mother-in-law, trapped in a W.C. Fields movie. Truman hardly looked much better by the time F.D.R.'s death made him President in 1945. Yet he did pretty well in the office...
...does one extract venom from a tiny, delicate and perhaps deadly spider? In a word: carefully. Kristensen and his wife Anita start by tranquilizing the specimen with a gentle breeze of carbon-dioxide gas from a cylinder behind the milking desk. Once the spider is groggy, the milker, peering through a low-power stereoscopic microscope, gently picks it up with metal tweezers that are connected to an electrical supply. When a mild shock is administered through the tweezers, the spider promptly spews up pretty much everything liquid inside it--including digestive enzymes. That was a problem early on, until Chuck...
Harry Truman seemed a dismal specimen right into middle age - a failed haberdasher condemned to live with his dreadnought mother-in-law, trapped in a W. C. Fields movie. Truman hardly looked much better by the time Franklin Roosevelt's death made him president in 1945. Yet he did pretty well in the office...
Brinkley reasons thus: The kind of man willing to do the things required to get himself elected president is, of necessity, a nastier and less moral specimen than the average citizen. Perhaps we should cut him an extra yard or two of slack...
...almost perfect specimen of the genus 'peach,'" says dashing reprobate Rowley Flint (Sean Penn) to the truly peachy Mary Pantin (Kristin Scott Thomas) in this stilted version of a Somerset Maugham trifle about the moneyed class inconvenienced by lust and Fascism in 1938 Florence. It's the sort of stiff-upper-Brit badinage that one may think one is nostalgic for, until one hears it played straight in a film with no glamour (the cinematography makes everyone look blotchy), urgency or sense. Really, my pet, it's all just too terribly terribly...terrible...