Word: acidity
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Neon Phalanx. Rejecting the scientific color of the French impressionists, even the acid color of the German expressionists, Pollock explored a clattering spectrum, an American neon intensity of pigments. He used fast-drying enamels, and aluminum paint to produce higher highlights than white could yield. He hit upon the idea that the paint could be the image, not just serve as its representative. He rejected the notion that paintings should have visual climaxes that smack the eye-such as a Mona Lisa in the midst of a landscape -and instead made every square inch of his big works bear...
...rights in Berlin. But whatever the Communists' motives, the holiday pass agreement clearly proved most erosive on their own side of the Wall. To East Berliners, who had been chafing in the gloom of empty shops and echoing streets, the sight of bright, gift-laden visitors seared like acid. West Berliners found their Eastern kin far more outspoken against the Ulbricht regime than they had been before the Wall went up. In fact, workers at East Berlin's municipal transport company, BVG, demanded that the pass agreement not only be extended but expanded to permit East Berliners...
Died. A. J. Liebling, 59, freewheeling journalist and longtime New Yorker contributor, who turned his sometimes loving, often acid pen to food (no one could pack away more), prizefights (he once fancied himself a not-quite Hemingway-class boxer), World War II accounts of the North African campaign, countless articles on the Wayward Press, and one notable dissection of Chicago: The Second City, whose cry, Liebling insisted, had changed from "Lemme at him" to "Hold him offa me"; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Wanting in Elegance. Nobody knows the root cause of ulcers in the digestive tract, but what happens after the process gets started is fairly clear. Countless cells in the wall of the stomach secrete chemicals, such as gastrin, and hydrochloric acid. These are designed by nature for the digestion of food. But if for any reason-physical or emotional -the stomach cells churn out digestive juices when there is no food for them to work on, they may start digesting a spot on the wall of the stomach itself. The result is a gastric ulcer. More often, the corrosive juices...
...more elegant and rational attack on ulcers adopted. Since the stomach-wall cells are activated by the vagus nerves (which explains why stress or emotional upsets can trigger the ulcer process), Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt figured that cutting the vagus nerves would cut down the acid output. His operation, "vagotomy," is not as simple as it sounds: surgeons often have difficulty finding and cutting all the nerve fibers in the bunch. And by itself, vagotomy is not consistently effective. So vagotomy has been combined with hemigastrectomy (second diagram), and also with the older operation of gastroenterostomy (third...