Word: anvils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form will depend upon their power to make it new, as Ezra Pound used to say, to take full command of new resources and navigate some fishy waters. In the '80s color clinched its victory. The gravity of black-and-white, the hard and durable tones of an anvil, gave way decisively. But color is tricky. Blood shouts, and the smallest patch of yellow adobe pounds hard on the retina. So a generation of photographers have learned to draw that very clamor into a deliberate statement. The hot pinks and fluorescent lime in Alex Webb's pictures of Haiti...
Silvera leads a team in the Lyman Labs that is using a high-pressure diamond anvil to crush together a palladium and deuterium cell. Silvera says their first test, which failed to release heat or emit subatomic particles that are expected by-products of fusion, could have failed because of accidental leaking by the liquid deuterium...
...jail and a $2,000 fine if further annoyed, everyone hid, returning well after midnight to catch the train. They succeeded, but with difficulty. Comfortable boxcars are giving way to sealed containerized loads. The riders settled for a chilly flatcar under a heaving truck, leaving Colton amid a terrifying anvil chorus of wheels, cars and couplings stressing and whining. But a neophyte's raw nerves are soon lulled by the classic rhythms of clickety-clack, as he crawls into a warm sleeping bag to enjoy a moonlit panorama of passing desert and mountains unmarred by highway billboards...
...billion that was spent last year on things horticultural. Once they have poured all the money they can into their homes, cash-flush yuppies have found that a garden can soak up limitless discretionary income. After seeds and dirt, there are goatskin gloves and Garden Weasels, wide- throated anvil pruners from Rolcut of England, not to mention $15,000 for a Sargent weeping hemlock tree. The yuppies quickly master the rituals and floral lore, swap compost recipes at dinner parties. Mulching has become elevator talk...
...Harvard community will get a glimpse of comedian Jay Leno's anvil-shaped jaw on Wednesday when the stand-up comic accepts the Harvard Lampoon's Elmer award...