Word: variants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subsidized Cuba with discount petroleum and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. So scientists at CIGB concentrated on improving the food supply. Among other things, they equipped sugarcane and potatoes with bacterial genes that confer pest resistance and added an extra growth-hormone gene to tilapia, creating a faster-growing variant of that tasty freshwater fish...
What could lead a parent to such shocking behavior? Authorities believe Kathleen Bush suffers from a variant of Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder that impels people to feign or induce illness in a twisted bid for attention. In Munchausen by proxy, parents may injure their children--smothering them with pillows, injecting them with poisons, mixing blood in their urine--in order to draw praise for their dedicated nursing of their offspring...
Besides knocking each other around, Martin and Gogarty punched the lights out of several presumptions. First to fall was the notion that women can't box and that if they tried, it would be some variant of boxercise or, worse yet, hot-oil wrestling. Well, as Tom Humphries wrote in the Irish Times, "it took five, maybe 10 seconds for the beery, testosterone charged crowd in the MGM [Grand] Garden to realize they weren't watching a novelty act...The mixture of ferocity and serious boxing skills left the most chauvinistic ticket holders gape-mouthed." Equally awed were the millions...
...Koyanis is suggesting that my collection is a variant of some authoritative printed anthology, she is mistaken because none exists. The typography of Poetic Work is my construal in that medium of Dickinson's poesis based on my own handwritten interpretations of photographic facsimiles and, in some instances, the original manuscripts. (Neither the principle of selection in Poetic Work nor my approach to the problem of representing the poetry in print for the general reader was derived from any particular typographic edition. And I made no photocopies of any source materials.) Koyanis' statement could even give the impression that...
Also of concern is Koyanis' response to the Chronde's query as to whether it turned down my project in part because of the variorum edition that Ralph Franklin is preparing for them. Koyanis asserts that the Harvard Press declined my request because my next amounts merely to "another variant of the typography. The question is," she declares, "How many competing versions do you want?" The typography? Dickinson handwrote her poetry--resisted the printing of verse as editors oversaw it in her day. The growing consensus among scholars in our day is that not only does not authoritative typographic text...