Word: stranded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Thompson was 25, she was a song-and-dance star on the Strand. Me and My Girl, a 1930s musical revival about a Cockney couple who topsyturn a country estate, was Emma's coming-out party. Since then she has rarely been out of work. She played Suzi Kettles, the Glaswegian pop singer with hair the color of a petrochemical sunset, in John Byrne's engaging mini-series Tutti Frutti. She was the long-suffering Englishwoman abroad in the BBC mini-series Fortunes of War. Her co-star was a young sensation from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Kenneth Branagh...
...setting could not have been more appropriate. Representations of the fabled molecule abound at the campus-like laboratory, which Watson calls "the University of DNA." Twisted, twin-strand, DNA-like designs border the ceiling of the auditorium and circle the lab's ubiquitous CSH insignia. A delicate steel model of the molecule sits in the auditorium lobby, and a DNA rendering hangs from the wall behind Watson's desk. The laboratory's lofty bell tower is not exempt. Each of its four sides is labeled with a letter representing one of the four nucleotides that constitute DNA's code letters...
...stage was set for just the kind of showdown Washington had hoped to avoid: a fight in the U.N. Security Council that would strand the U.S. between the interests of its good friend Israel and the diplomatically important Arabs. If sanctions come to a vote, the Clinton Administration will have to choose between exposing Israel for the first time ever to U.N. discipline and offending the Arabs by wielding a veto that the U.S. has not used for 2 1/2 years -- and pray that the results do not disrupt the Middle East peace talks. Playing the ace would be awkward...
...gray metal-mesh cube, 30 inches on a side, sitting on the museum floor like the rest of the industrially fabricated boxes -- Donald Judd's, for instance -- that typify Minimal sculpture. But a few seconds later, how differently it reads! Every pair of holes in the mesh has a strand of gray plastic tubing threaded through it, the ends pointing inward. The whole inside of the cube is lined with these enormous glossy hairs. You can't not see it as organic: sea anemone, vagina. And it refers back culturally too, since its obvious predecessor is that icon of oral...
...United States grew 53 percent between 1980 and 1990. With this influx have come forceful voices calling for one name under which all Spanish speakers can unify. Earl Shorris, author of the recently published Latinos: Biography of the People, favors "Latino," a term whose very sound embodies the one strand that Shorris believes ties all of these people together: their common language...