Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much for kid stuff like responsibility or honor, here in the Land of the Setting...
...possibility of hostilities with the Soviets, he guesses that it would be cheaper and more devastating to drop money on them, not bombs. And Congress, he goes on, Congress should have to rescind some old law every time it passes a new one, to make room. Ordinary stuff is Rooney's beat, with no verbal slickery: how doctors can do a heart bypass but not cure a 101 degrees fever, and why do clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There is no dazzler at the end; he just stops talking, smiles and waves. The reader is warmed...
Stripped of their harmful genes, viruses are becoming the stuff of safe and potent vaccines. And within the next few years, scientists hope to gain federal approval to conduct gene therapy. Their goal: the use of viruses as "vectors" to carry healthy genes to the chromosomes of people with genetic diseases, genes that may permanently cure them...
...seems to bypass the brain and speak directly to the heart. In the words of the playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, it "knows death, knows blood, knows love." And that awful but powerful knowledge is what this revue seeks to convey. As its title indicates, it presents the real, raw stuff, without nightclub flourish or Jose Greco's acrobatic flamboyance...
...There was the crack of a single rifle shot fired from the wood and the bald man who was holding me took the bullet right through his face. It was a horrible sight. His head seemed to splash open and little soft bits of grey stuff flew out in all directions." Younger readers may be astonished that this graphic recollection comes from the author of durable children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Admirers of Roald Dahl's "grownup" ^ stories (Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch) should not be surprised. The passage, which appears in the second installment of Dahl...