Word: acids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full of cancer-causing aflatoxins. "Don't know why the Swedes don't get rid of them," Epstein said. "They are so easy to detect-fluorescent...
...population growth, including contraceptives for teen-agers," says a White House aide. "That'll go over great in the Catholic community." Already the Republican rhetoric on McGovern is being honed to a nasty edge. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott was moved to call McGovern the "triple-A candidate-acid, amnesty and abortion." While Nixon would campaign as a working President, he would have scores of "surrogate candidates" ready to go forth with grittier political messages. One of them might be Spiro Agnew or, if Agnew is dropped from the Republican ticket, former Treasury Secretary John Connally. Last week, perhaps...
...Acid Holes. Another expatriate in Rome, Painter Yuri Titov, 44, last week was desperately trying to save some of the 62 pictures he took out of Russia last month. Titov and his wife -both members of a group called the "Democratic Movement"-had departed Moscow only after "it became ab-olutely impossible for us to live there any longer," and had insisted on taking the pictures with them. After the paintings had cleared Soviet customs in Moscow and been put aboard an Aeroflot plane, acid was surreptitiously poured on the painted surfaces of the Christ figures, Crucifixions and icons that...
Electric power is a marvelous, inexpensive household genie. But it causes violent and lasting disruption elsewhere. Oil spills at sea, strip mining of coal on land, acid mine drainage into water supplies-these are some of the hazards of extracting fuels from the earth. When the fuel is burned, it is done wastefully; the average plant converts only 35% of fuel into power, and the rest disappears in the form of smoke and heat. The process is dirty. According to Government statistics, electric power plants account for half the sulfur oxides and significant amounts of the nitrogen oxides and soot...
Light drifts slowly up through the paint and glows silently on the surface. Paintings that seem monochrome - Resnick's work always has one dominant color, whether cobalt blue, pink or a peculiarly sensuous acid green - disclose, on study, fascinating inflections and qualifications. These nuances constitute a structure. Resnick's paintings, unlike those of some so-called "lyrical abstractionists" 20 years his junior, never go soft or flossy; they are controlled by an iron will to form. Except that the forms do not become explicit; they remain stored in the pigment like warmth in stone. · Robert Hughes