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BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHvON
I feel like healing is coming.
I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in
our history.
—Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, after being among the first Americans to receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer (December 14)
Science and filmmaking are very close in one respect. It has to do with discovery, and it has to do with a sense of awe. If I didn’t have a sense of awe in every single one of my films, I wouldn’t work in this profession. And the same thing you find among scientists. They have exactly this incredible excitement.
—Werner Herzog, speaking with NPR about his newest film, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (November 19)
ACROSS 6. Lily family member grown in Lisse, Holland 7 Japanese bean also called red mung 8. Tool providing a lawn with more oxygen 9. Grassy plain with few trees 11. Plants having no roots, stems, or leaves 12 Poison associated with 11-Across 14. Narcissus native to Spain and Portugal 16 Search for water with a "witching stick" 17. Inflorescence like a parasol 19. Tiny fruit of the duckweed family 21. Mexican sunflower's typical hue 22. Succulent yielding mescal |
DOWN 1. Volcano on whose slopes Sicilian milkvetch grows 2. Substance that promotes blossoming 3. Leaflike bract that anagrams to "the sap" 4. Shrub in a subgenus of rhododendrons 5. Mallow family herb with edible pods 7. Department established by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 10. Variety of daisy also known as marguerite 11. Pear from a French region 13. Wild apple with a Midwestern state in its name (2 wds.) 15. Situated on high ground, as some white asters 16. Abaxial, as the lower surface of a leaf 18. Spiky seed pod 20. The Garden of Earthly Delights setting |