The five stories in this volume not only expressed Fuentes' most immediate sensual pleasures but also contained his oldest memories.
It gifted her backscatter vision – like an upgraded form of x-ray – but also contained a deadly failsafe if she refused to follow text orders from her handler.
They were rich in liver-protective rheosmin but also contained fructose, and supposedly could "ferment" in your gut, encouraging the bad bacteria that led to hormone imbalances.
It included a proposal to reduce Social Security payments, but also contained more spending on infrastructure and higher taxes on the rich.
Compare that with "The Fugitive" (1993), a film that cleaved to the old-fashioned Hawksian virtues of character-through-action but also contained a telling exchange in which Harrison Ford pleaded his innocence to Tommy Lee Jones atop a dam.
My favorite from the cold array was the salpicao salad, which looked like the familiar shredded- carrot-and-raisin warhorse but also contained shards of moist, white meat chicken and crunchy fried potato sticks.
Industrial society had an unprecendented capacity to create prosperity and comfort but also contained undeniable new powers to harm, to victimize and to control, as Wells and later writers like George Orwell fully recognized.
The same could be said for Taylor's checkerboard lighting designs: as beautiful as they were, they were also forbidding — boxes that showed off the dancers but also contained them.
The bill that arrived on President Reagan's desk contained a budget that called for tax increases and cuts to national security, but also contained what would be the largest debt limit increase in history.
The reports yielded tips from which any generation could benefit but also contained some red flags indicating where the younger generations could stumble in the future from the same traits that seem like strengths today.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] India still shining?SIR – Your briefing on India's overheating economy raised several relevant matters, but also contained some careless omissions ("India on fire", February 3rd).
