Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late Night with David Letterman (NBC). Laid-back and amiably hip, Letterman presides over a menagerie of stupid pet tricks, oddball celebrities and the man with the worm farm. A lullaby for the eccentric insomniac...
...Manville action drew angry responses from asbestos victims and their attorneys. "They're hoping we'll die off," said Bob Speake, 66, a retired Manville employee who suffers from asbestosis. "A lot of the ones I know already have. They're trying to worm out of having to pay." Said Robert Sweeney, a Cleveland attorney who represents 268 claimants in asbestos-related suits: "It's an outrageous abuse of the judicial process. Chapter 11 is not intended for corporations with $2.2 billion in sales that are operating in the black." Vowed Ronald L. Motley, a Barnwell...
DIED. Harry Mills, 68, one of the original Mills Brothers, singer of most of the scat parts and baritone solos for the barbershop-swing group, whose mellow and enduringly contemporary sound (Paper Doll, Lazy River, Glow Worm) withstood shifts in musical fashions and gave Mills a singing career that spanned 57 years; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...1930s, he never joined arms with the social realists who dominated that decade or subverted his art to ideology. His devotion to the short story provoked some to label him a mere miniaturist. Others were irked by his continued attention to the kind of characters who, as in The Worm in the Apple, "got richer and richer and richer and lived happily, happily, happily, happily." Only the tin-eared could miss the irony of that description. Cheever's people are imprisoned, often comically, by their station wagons and swimming pools and leafy estates. The constant issue in his fiction...
Safranek sets up most of the experiments the undergraduates perform, while Williams' provides more of a supportive role. All of the research deals with the tobacco horn worm. Williams most recent area of concentration. Safranek first teachers the students the mundane tasks of cleaning tubes, refilling supplies and of taking care of Williams caterpillar factory--which year round produces mass quantities of all the different stages of caterpillar development. After getting to know the students and their dependability. Safranek provides them with lab projects while teaching them the actual techniques needed to pursue their independent research Depending on the students...