Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their shortcomings ("Library all of eight feet square suitable for erudite dwarf"). He also whets sales appeal by describing his clients as "hedonist of 19,'' "redheaded sculptress,'' "girl physiotherapist," "former Harvard lecturer turned tycoon in ladies' underwear.'' Frequently, Brooks offers an acid explanation of the owner's reasons for selling: "One of the big pots in chamber music, leader of a famous quartet, taking up suburban residence with former girl viola pupil, sacrifices exciting newly built mews residence...
Tiger is a play of fumbled possibilities. It is a mordant reflection on a Negro mother to say that her highest hope for a son is a good death rather than a good life, and an acid play might have come of it. Playwright Feibleman opaquely implies that the Negro in the U.S. lives in a state of siege and self-corroding stratagems. But he has carried understatement to the point of no comment. He is so leery of the false premise that color affects everything that, as a matter of stage fact, he is trapped into arguing the equally...
Because the X chromosome is so much bigger than the Y, women with two Xs have 4% more genetic material-the vital deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA-than men. Geneticists have speculated that this might explain women's longer life span. Whether or not the speculation proves correct, the genetic mosaicism reflected in red blood cells definitely gives women an inherent advantage over...
...basic procedure of etching is to coat a copper plate with wax, draw on it with a needle that exposes the metal, and immerse the plate in acid, which eats away the exposed area. After removing the wax, the artist prints the plate by coating it with ink. wiping the ink from the surface, and pressing the plate against paper that draws ink out of the etched depressions by a blotting action...
Hayter experimented with substitutes for the wax. He tried using on a single plate various substances with different degrees of resistance to the acid. The acid, biting into the metal faster in one spot, more slowly in another, could produce complex and subtle effects not possible before. As the artist worked, the acid working on the copper would produce new images that as he observed them would excite his imagination...