Word: unraveler
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...efforts to unravel the Gordian knot which now has choked and indeed, threatens to eliminate the "Mother of the art movement" (the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts) within this institution. I have been awakened more clearly than ever before to the absolute necessity for the Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street to put its house in order, and for the administration of this institution to sever the outdated, inextricable bonds of budgetary and administrative decision- making which still bind together the two separate entities of the Carpenter Center and the Department...
...Mafia, would try to streamline the story, infuse action into a narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...
...hugging suits for downhill skiers. Over the past four years, Lewis has played the attentive host to dozens of fist-size spiders called golden orb weavers, housing them in Plexiglas condominiums, feeding them a daily diet of flies and, every now and then, flipping them on their backs to unravel yards of gossamer thread. The ambitious goal of all this effort: to unravel the secrets of spider silk, a family of materials stronger than steel, stretchier than nylon and tougher than Kevlar, the stuff used to make bulletproof vests...
KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- HOME TO 4 million people -- is no place to live. The city's social fabric has been fraying for years, but in September 1991 it started to unravel completely. The crisis began when a group of elite government troops, angry because they had not been paid for months, went on a looting spree that was quickly joined by civilians. During the next few days, nearly $1 billion worth of property, from clothes to computers, was pillaged. After the rampage, foreign businessmen -- and foreign money -- fled the city. The economy collapsed. Since the government now has almost no money...
...more conscientious among them are doing so because they think if they can learn the quirks and explore the oddities of this small Southern state, they'll be able to unravel Clinton's quirks and oddities. The same reporters who explained President Bush as a product of New England aloofness and Texas conservatism are now constructing a Bill Clinton out of their few weeks in his home state...