Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...using gene splicing as a research tool rather than an end in itself. She has been studying RNA--one of the intermediate steps the cell employs in translating the DNA code--for 22 years. Whereas Gilbert has a definite medical goal pushing him on, Doty must stab in the dark and hope to come up with a lead which will help scientists to understand this most basic of cellular processes...
...there are disappointments on the album, especially a remake of the Elvis Presley classic "Love Me Tender." Ronstadt's stab at the tune is too polished, too slick to work well. She obliterated Presley's rough edges and raw power. "Blowing Away," a lethargic, mournful ballad in which producer-manager Asher sings background, dies before it starts, lacking the poignancy that makes Ronstadt's slowest songs click. A 1934 Oscar Hammerstein song, "When I Grow Too Old to Dream," despite a pretty electric piano line, also falls short. Ronstadt plays with a cutesy, childlike voice which makes the song sound...
...settled near Sharm el Sheikh because he loved skin diving in the deep-blue waters: "It seems to me that Israel paid a high price for the chance to get peace. Why should we give up all of Sinai? God forbid, Sadat can take back everything and then stab a knife in our backs...
...casually watches the television, which announces that an Alitalia jet with 86 people aboard had just blown up after take-off, probably due to a terrorist bomb planted on the craft planted on the craft just prior to fateful departure. Ho ho ho. Certainly this is no stab at humor, but even as a piece of wry social comment, it still fails. Isn't Starsky and Hutch enough...
...British customs officers in Boston Harbor, should finish up atop their little bailiwick in the North American Soccer League, although their chances of survival in the playoffs are cloudy at best. The season will end for the team on Saturday in Memphis, with Teaperson Mike Flanagan making a last stab at surpassing New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia for the league scoring crown (at this writing Flanagan trailed the New Yorker by two goals). The New Englanders will open up the playoffs at Schaefer Stadium on Wednesday, against a first-round patsy to be named later...