Word: spiralled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double-helix DNA molecule, which is encased in the center of every living cell, is shaped like a spiral staircase. Each step in the staircase is composed of a compatible pair of four different nucleotides, rep- resented by the letters A, T, G and C. Grouped into sets of three steps, the nucleotides are called codons, which dictate, or code for, the 20 amino acids, the subunits of protein. A few codons, or code words, serve as punctuation marks, telling the cellular machinery to start or stop adding amino acids to the growing protein chain...
ATERRIFYING SPIRAL OF violence and discrimination directed toward homosexuals may already be underway as a result of the disease's spread and the nation's resurgent conservatism. Consider the actions of conservative minister Jerry Falwell, for example, who leads what he has publicly called a "truth campaign to counter the homosexual attack on America." "Fag bashing" is a primary theme of the New Right's agenda; mail campaigns during the Presidential race often mentioned "gay support" for the Democratic Party. A recent Houston ordinance which prohibited the use of "sexual orientation" as a consideration when hiring city employees was defeated...
...benches to be camping. (Dead Heads, who are apolitical, do not seem to enrage police as hippies did.) By the time the midday sun had warmed the bones of the park-bench bivouackers, the park had become a street fair. T shirts were on sale, decorated with tie-dyed spiral nebulas, skulls and roses (another important symbol to the Dead, who have more symbols than the Elks or the Masons). So were incense, posters, illuminated sweatpants, fly whisks for easy tropical living and magic cookies. "How magic?" the vendor was asked. "Magic enough to get you very high," she said...
Wende's colleague, Lawyer Jan Olszewski, was equally dismayed at the prosecution's failure to find the real instigator of the crime. In a veiled reference to the Soviet Union, Olszewski declared, "This corpse, this blood, was supposed to release a spiral of mutual terror. Who could have had an interest in it? Every child who studies history knows in whose interest Poland's weakness...
...features a cloud of toxic industrial waste, although the author's larger concern is with death as metaphor. As usual, DeLillo mixes black comedy with a ceremonious tone: "The enormous dark mass moved like some death ship in a Norse legend, escorted across the night by armored creatures with spiral wings." The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill...