Word: tain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there really enough culture-hungry people in the U.S. to support these operations? A number of industry observers doubt it and expect some, or all, of the new networks to suffer a cer tain amount of disappointment. "I don't think the cultural market is that big," frets David Crippens, manager of Los Angeles' PBS station KCET. "Our prime-time ratings have doubled in the last two years, but I still view the entry of the cultural cables as a challenge. We will have to provide programs that, the audiences can't get elsewhere." Viewers, whose careers...
...going to have to answer to the American people for it." Rea gan still plans to devote much of his remaining time to five key states: Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida, which have 121 of the 270 electoral votes he needs to win. If Anderson can main tain 10% in the polls, Reagan figures he has the edge in electoral votes, however close the popular tally, and should go to the White House...
...center of dispute was a new human-made variation of the common bacterium Pseudomonas. While working at General Electric's Schenectady, N.Y., labs in the early 1970s, Indian-born Microbiologist Ananda M. Chakrabarty made a significant discov ery. Chakrabarty knew that cer tain bacteria are able to break up hydrocarbons. What he found was that the genes responsible for this capacity are not contained in the bacterium's single chromosome, or principal repository of DNA, the genetic times Instead, they reside in small, auxiliary parcels of genes, called plasmids, elsewhere in the cell. Taking plasmids from three...
...great innovators of the 20th century, this was a spiritual matter. In every vista he saw a creative idea logically developed. The merest wild flower reminded him of Goethe's ''primeval plant,'' symbol of the unity of all organic life. Most important, his moun tain treks re-enacted his artistic aspirations. More than any composer before or since, Webern worked on the timberline between sound and silence. His austere, rigorously condensed pieces seem to hover in a clear, rarefied ether of their own, like clusters of ice crystals on the point of vaporizing...
...quite so good in the other: he is a fine father but a wayward villain. He has apparently sought to create the same broad, almost campy mannerisms Cyril Ritchard had in the original version, but, perhaps through bad direction, he has overshot his mark. As a result, his Cap tain Hook is almost effeminate, modeled less on Ritchard and more on Hermione Gingold. It is perhaps a too original interpretation...