Word: treads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history of medicine, Holub's real interest is in the development of the social organism. Holub uses immunology, the study of what the body recognizes as "self" and "other," as model for studying the political problems of insiders and outsiders. His best essays in Shedding Life carefully tread this line between scientific fact and political metaphor...
...Ophelia, for instance, to Mel Gibson's Hamlet. But it is in the early 20th century that her sweet imperiousness has been put to smartest use; she has made no fewer than four films based on E.M. Forster novels (A Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End). She finds the age attractive--"Women tend to be the protagonists," she notes, "not the ornamental love interest"--and the age returns the favor. If Edwardian England hadn't existed, James Ivory might have had to invent...
...type of movie that sends you home talking is that the characters are real enough to be recognizable, yet perverted enough to upset our sensibilities. Jackie O. is not a totally foreign character, but the extent to which she carries out her fantasy is. Her family all tread very softly around her, hoping that "she won't be dangerous as long as she takes her medicine." Lesly, as the odd man out, is the only character to question the family's complete submission to and indulgence of Jackie O. With the exact nature of Jackie's illness left very vague...
...once a paean to serpents and an encyclopedic review of what's known and not known about them, the book argues that instead of hunting snakes down to near extinction, as we've done with the timber rattler--once glorified on the American Revolution's "Don't Tread on Me" flag--we ought to consider them "worthy of respect" and deserving of "a place in nature...
...Carola Eisenberg takes the road less traveled by-from the dirt roads of Latin American villages ravaged by war to halls at Harvard Medical School which, before her arrival in 1969, were unaccustomed to the tread of a female dean of students...