Word: strained
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There is a rich vein of misogyny, or at the very least, a virulent strain of anti-feminism running through this novel. Margaret, at age 28, agonizes about her husband's purported infidelity moaning that "he has forsaken my aging flesh for-for what? To lose him to some exquisite little girl with long hair flicking like a horse's mane, a student drawn to him and he to her, intoxicated with the wine dark words of Walt Whitman, yes, okay, that's as it should be." Since when does turning 30 signal the onset of senescence? Admittedly, there...
...report to Science, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine say they insert the gene, which directs production of a light- emitting enzyme called luciferase, into tissue samples taken from TB patients. Within two hours, the cultures are aglow. Various drugs are then introduced. If the particular strain of TB is susceptible, the light dims and goes out. If the TB is resistant, the culture keeps shining...
...wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped you in the solitude of days./ How peaceful is my mind entwined...
Thus spectators and reporters had to strain to hear the response last week when Acting Justice Elliott Wilk asked a simple, direct question: Should the world-famous director/actor/writer or his leading lady and companion of 12 years be granted custody of the three children they share...
...week training camp, organized by Operation Rescue, where about 25 men are learning tactics for blockades. Pro-choice activists who are monitoring the group contend that the men are also being instructed in how to stalk and harass. The convergence of pro-life forces has placed great strain on the area's sole abortion clinic, where about 30 protesters have been picketing for the past month. Merritt, the clinic counselor whose son was harassed, says when the murder of the doctor was announced to the protesters, they took up a chant: "One down! How many more?" That same question...