Word: stingingly
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They are periodical cicadas (pronounced sih-Kay-duhs), the world's longest-lived insects. Despite a locust-like appearance, they neither bite nor sting nor devastate vegetation. Entomologists currently count 19 separate "broods," which appear at various times in different parts of the country, some once every 13 years. But all follow roughly the same miraculous life cycle. Growing through five skin-shedding molts and sucking nourishing juices from roots, they emerge with uncanny precision, triggered by some still mysterious internal clock...
...star-crossed lovers who are just 13. He is in delightful fettle and creates one classic bit, a gasping fit while reading a newspaper. Yet this is one latter-day Olivier film that has more going for it than its star. Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) and Screenwriter Allan Burns (cocreator of TV's original Mary Tyler Moore Show) have constructed a romantic comedy that, for all its contrivances, offers an indecent amount of emotional and comic satisfaction...
...accident could hardly have occurred at a worse time. The U.S. now imports almost half of the oil it consumes, and the OPEC nations continued last week to sting the industrialized world with price increases, thus adding to the nation's already soaring inflation rate. The U.S. had been counting on nuclear energy to achieve a greater degree of energy independence, but the Three Mile Island accident helped demonstrate that there is no easy path to self-sufficiency. The use of each kind of energy has its own particular problems or risks. Says David Rosenbaum, a consultant...
Sadly, as the editors of the 1940s, '50s and '60s point out, the literary gadflies have lost much of their sting. The underground has become fashionable: everybody has joined the avant-garde and Allen Ginsberg has joined academe. Lacking the diehard convictions of their elders, most of the 1,500 little magazines now being published print anything and wind up sounding the same. "The multiplication of poets sort of leaves my mind blank," says Poet Karl Shapiro, former editor of Poetry. In many ways this collection of essays is a retrospective; editors like Robie Macauley, formerly...
...Sting. At Science Center D. Friday and Saturday...