Word: strand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cartier-Bresson demonstrated the strange magic in moments in which nothing much happens but all sorts of things are revealed. RUNNERS-UP Identifying the Dead, Russian Front by Dmitri Baltermants; Wall Street by Paul Strand...
...pull out a single strand is a very difficult thing to do. It's a piece of the environment in which the negotiations are carried out," says Merry Touborg, director of communications for the office of human resources...
...Allens most complex film has a dual plotline, with a comic strand about a filmmaker (Allen) intertwining with the story of a married man (Martin Landau) undergoing an affair and a crisis of faith. Landaus performance is a standout, and the merging of the two stories in the films final scene is both daring and entirely successful...
Just when you thought you'd heard just about everything about gene research - scientists have supposedly isolated every predisposition from breast cancer to sugar addiction - a group of California doctors claim to have found the DNA strand responsible for the industrialized world's number one killer, heart failure. In a report released Thursday, the team of UC San Diego doctors told of mating mice genetically engineered to contain the gene phospholamban, or PLB, which they believed was responsible for heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice...
...quick double off the bat of Gerald Williams knocked the first string loose. A sacrifice moved the winning run over to third, leaving Rogers unraveling faster than the plot of a Very Special "Blossom." Kenny was hanging by a thin strand--the Metropolitans were a mere 90 feet away from a very long winter...