Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Talents as broad and wide as this thrive in novels but rarely take to the more constricting form of the short story. Airships proves Hannah an exception. Though a few of the 20 pieces included here fall flat, most are artfully rounded-off vignettes jumping with humor and menace. And the stories bounce off and echo one another, giving the book an impact greater than the sum of its parts...
...words, waiting for someone to relieve him quickly and take him off the stage. At a reception held for him after the concert, he exhibited the same social awkwardness, huddling in a corner of the couch, silent except when spoken to. Unlike Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, who thrive on these liquor-dominated social events, Khan seemed embarrassed...
Overseas banks thrive in America but face curbs...
...primary purpose of this fall's search was to find ornamentals from northern and colder Oriental regions that would thrive naturally in the rigorous New England climate...
...candidates for the oldest-form-of-life title are organisms that scientists have dubbed "archaebacteria." They are found in airless recesses like Yellowstone National Park's hot springs, thrive in temperatures ranging from 65° to 70° C. (150° to 170° F.), take in carbon dioxide and hydrogen, give off methane gas, and have been known to scientists for years. But it took the efforts of a team led by Geneticist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois in Urbana to demonstrate that the archaebacteria had an extraordinary characteristic. Using enzymes, or chemical catalysts, they broke...