Word: absorbent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking home by means of a "passive" solar system that has a minimum of mechanical components. The south-facing walls of Baer's home outside Albuquerque are floor-to-ceiling windows, and behind these glass panels are walls composed of water-filled 55-gal. steel drums. The drums absorb the sun's heat by day, radiate it at night when the windows are covered by huge clamshell-like shutters to slow cooling. Similar systems work almost as well in colder climates. In Bedford, N.H., Ralph Tyrrell and Holly Anderson share a three-bedroom house that obtains its heat...
...these final hours, unless unforetold events intervene, the voters who have decided will harden their positions as they absorb additional glimpses and reports on the men. The undecided will pile up all the pieces of information gathered through these weeks and see which way the scale tips-if it does tip either way. With them, a small item might make the difference. The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee figures that the ingredients will be "seven or eight parts TV, three or four parts reading, one part wife or husband, one part drugstore, one part religion and one part geography...
...said intensive work is more suitable for the social sciences and the humanities than for the natural an physical sciences, because "there is no way students can absorb certain kinds of material in a short time...
...Sensuality. Watkins is more interested in establishing the sensual details of Munch's painting: the sound of a brush dashing paint, a blade peeling pigment off a canvas. Munch's formative affair with a married woman (Gro Fraas) is here devoid of dramatics. Watkins wants us to absorb the colors and emotions of the affair direct from Munch's work, particularly from one, finished in 1893 and full of sinister sensuality, showing a woman leaning close over a man. The painting is titled Vampire. The director dwells on the haunted canvases with a sort of driven fascination...
...economic struggle they faced in the post-slavery period, are all episodes which cover a broad range of emotional and factual material, yet Haley describes them with such natural and simple sensitivity that one scene flows smoothly into the next and leaves plenty of time for the reader to absorb all that has transpired...