Word: transformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principal concern of many nations over the next 40 years," he said. The American harvest miracle -- and even last week's announcement by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines that a new, higher-yielding strain of rice would boost world production 20% to 25% -- have yet to transform Brown into an optimist. The ratio of food to population is the lowest in 20 years, he says, and "it will take at least five years for the new rice plant to have any effect. In other crops, the research with fertilizers and new seeds seems to have plateaued...
...patients are poor or mentally ill. And over the decades, many have signed up for experiments after doctors suggested that it was the only way they could receive meaningful help. Now, however, those methods of obtaining recruits for psychiatric experiments are undergoing a radical change, one that may transform the way schizophrenia is studied in years to come. This summer the National Institutes of Health rebuked the University of California, Los Angeles for serious "deficiencies" in setting up schizophrenia experiments that UCLA runs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles. A UCLA experiment reported in TIME last...
...produced in 1966) is clearly enjoying himself here. Almost all the characters are heavily, heavily drawn, so much so that the film has the feeling of a farce. Shayne declares passionately that he's an artist, that he won't change to pander to the commercial--his goal is "transform men's souls"--and promptly gives away every ideal he's histrionically declared as fast as anyone will take them. Diane Wiest is hilarious as the ridiculous Sinclair, speaking and moving as if she were an alcoholic Lady Macbeth who'd be king herself rather than any dopey husband. Late...
...quintessential Italian mafia strong man, tough and curt and not overly smart, but quickly becomes the most interesting character in the film (largely due to Palmenteri's fabulous performance), a moody genius with a big gun. The intelligence of the script is particularly apparent here: rather than trying to transform Cheech from a hood to an artist, Allen is content to make him an artistic hood, which Palminteri plays to the hilt...
...goal of scholarship were to confirm what beliefs about the world we held already, then many students and professors could save themselves much sweat and tears. We could transform this institution (formerly dedicated to veritas) into a giant orgy of self-congratulation. We could march through the Yard glorying in our ignorance. We could use the books in Widener as kindling in our fireplaces, and sit happily in our common rooms, secure in our righteousness...