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...team of scientists set up a field trial of two transgenic lines?UH SunUP and UH Rainbow?and by 1996, the verdict had been rendered. The nontransgenic plants in the field trial were a stunted mess, and the transgenic plants were healthy. In 1998, after negotiations with four patent holders, the papaya growers switched en masse to the transgenic seeds and reclaimed their orchards. "Consumer acceptance has been great," reports Rusty Perry, who runs a papaya farm near Puna. "We've found that customers are more concerned with how the fruits look and taste than with whether they are transgenic...
...answer to such questions turned out to hover somewhere between "Maybe" and "Uh, no." The lesson of the past three decades, since Minimalism hove on the horizon (soon to be followed by Conceptual Art, which even got rid of the cinder blocks and left only a residue of words), is that in art people love rarity, singularity, fully realized handcraft, fine materials and interesting content--the last not to be confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written...
...Republican Party's worst nightmare this side of a dimpled chad. What a turn of events! When Hillary Clinton first paid court to retiring U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, folks in the know had several observations: "She wouldn't," "She can't," "She'll get thrashed" and "Uh-oh" were prominent among them. When she announced her candidacy, the term carpetbagger was immediately hurled. But New York likes its carpetbaggers--people seemed to forget that Robert F. Kennedy and James Buckley not only ran for Senate from the Empire State but won--and New York likes high-wattage celebrities...
...Yugoslavia the people said yes to freedom again, rose up against an illegally elected President, stormed the seat of government and forced a recount. Uh...
...Smith protesting Robert Downey Jr.'s arrest: "We'd better change the draconian drug laws of America before this country sinks under the weight of a prison population so huge that if we sent them all to Harvard instead of jail, we'd be a nation of educated achievers." Uh, no. I think if you sent the entire prison population to Harvard, dining hall decorum would suffer tremendously.... Word has it that Meg Ryan banished any girls who had the hots for Russell Crowe on the set of Proof of Life. If anybody even made goo-goo eyes...