Advertisers and media magnates are celebrating the concept of good fortune with a lengthening list of products, publications and pitches centered on the word "lucky".
Amis is scorching, nigh incantatory, as he rifles through the details of Lowry's lifelong bender: So the years of Lowry's maturity unfold: binnings, bannings, arrests, ejections, screams in the night, expired visas and lost passports, together with a lengthening rap sheet of domestic arson, larceny and GBH….
He lowers his chin slightly, and his dark eyes dance with merriment as he speaks in coarse yet rounded tones, the syllables precisely articulated but with a lengthening of the vowels and final consonants that gives the talk a singing, almost caressing quality.
It's hot, not cool, at a moment when contemporary taste has settled with a lengthening snore into the industrial safety of mid-20th-century icons like the Eameses or the ironic suavities of fashion: shag-carpeted Los Angeles boutique hotels and the faux-Zen design stores in SoHo and TriBeCa.
A disrupted microbiome has been associated with a lengthening list of problems: obesity and its opposite, malnutrition; diabetes (both type-1 and type-2); atherosclerosis and heart disease; multiple sclerosis; asthma and eczema; liver disease; numerous diseases of the intestines, including bowel cancer; and autism.
To know such things gave both beauty and meaning to the landscape, as Mr Rackham spent his life proving.At Cambridge, where he had studied plant pathology and became, successively, a fellow and master of Corpus, he was the shyly smiling wild man of the woods, in shorts and wellingtons, or in a dinner jacket teamed with sandals and orange socks, and with a lengthening and whitening beard.
A 1693 Stradivarius violin, restored to its original configuration, sits next to a 1694 Strad adapted -- like most such old instruments -- to modern use, with a lengthened fingerboard, a longer neck at a different angle, wire strings, a chin rest and a larger bridge.
By using a modified base-plate with a lengthened central peg, we place a cancellous bone graft harvested from the humeral head beneath the baseplate of the RSA, effectively creating a long-necked scapula.
In 4-days old larvae mouth opening is initiated, the digestive system is formed, with a lengthened intestine and a pancreatic gland anlage.
These two functions complement one another, providing the cell with a lengthened duration in which to properly constrict the actomyosin ring and successfully complete cytokinesis.
Conversely in Rwanda, only 1 respondent, a service provider, thought that side effects would be more difficult to manage with a lengthened dosing schedule.
