Word: trickyness
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A crowd gathers in front of the window of NO XS to watch a scene serenely out of place on this trendy stretch of street. More than a dozen people are seated inside, needles poised, as owner Michele Renee hosts one of her popular monthly knitting parties. Renee, who also...
Currently, Guilford Pharmaceuticals in Baltimore and Amgen in Thousand Oaks, Calif., are collaborating on a synthetic neurotrophic compound that can be taken orally and then travel to the brain, where it bonds with proteins in dopamine neurons. The tricky part is that most trophic molecules are too big to cross...
In literature as in life, a fine line often separates the ambitious from the merely pretentious. In her dazzling debut novel, The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion; 530 pages; $24.95), Helen DeWitt walks this line with the utmost confidence. Describing the book, however--a work that covers decades, spans oceans...
In Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, a successful TV producer claims there is one inviolable rule of comedy: "If it bends, it's funny," he says. "If it breaks, it's not funny." It is precisely such mundane thinking that brought us Suddenly Susan, but there's a bit...
Reading the minds of the nine Supreme Court Justices is always a tricky business, even if you get to hear their voices. But first impressions from the Court's 90 minutes say this thing - guess what? - is gonna be close. And as long as the Justices stick to the narrow...