But despite the creaminess and emotional immediacy of her voice, she never reached the next rung, partly because of hit-or-miss material, partly because she often fell back on imitating Whitney Houston.
This knee-slapper comes from "Philogelos," or "Laughter-Lover," a Greek joke book, probably compiled in the fourth or fifth century A.D. Its 264 entries amount to an index of classical humor, with can't-miss material on such figures of fun as the miser, the drunk, the sex-starved woman and the man with bad breath.
The letter did not address what use might be made of the missing material.
In addition, the missing material included intelligence information, including some about the Russian nuclear weapons program.
Arcane, fragmentary writing encourages active reading, they argue, by forcing the reader to supply the missing material.
Among the missing material was intelligence information concerning the Russian nuclear weapons program, law enforcement officials said.
Members of Dr. ElBaradei's staff and outside experts cautioned that the amount of missing material remained relatively small.
The producer destroyed the negative, but a few years later a print was found of all the missing material.
He was close to abandoning the mission when, last September, he located all the missing material (including "pretty much pristine" negatives) gathering dust in a warehouse in Seattle.
In a dismal twist of fate, a fire in the suburban Paris warehouse where it was stored destroyed — definitively — the last remnants of this missing material.
Dr. Browne said that as soon as he found out, on the night of May 31, a major effort was started at the laboratory to find the missing material.
