Word: aura
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Under the Auspices of AURA, the Institute will monitor and evaluate data received from the NASA Space Telescope, which is scheduled for launch from the Space Shuttle...
Giacconi, currently an associate director of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was selected for the position by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) after a four month search, the Center's public relations director, James Cornell, said Wednesday...
...anything associated with Elvis has an aura to it. Graceland could practically be a national park for all the people who go through it. His last limousine is now a travelling exhibit. It tours the country, loaded on a trailer, and draws more people than any other automotive mausoleum except for the Bonnie and Clyde death car. It's something of America's new interstate sideshow. It's fitting that the new version of the ghoulish twoheaded fetus in a bottle should be this monstrous automobile. The crowds come from all over to see it and to buy souvenirs...
...early 1970s, Lichtenstein was fond of quoting Matisse, that supreme artificer of images denoting calm and luxurious revery. Run through Lichtenstein's mill, however, the images lost this aura entirely, becoming stark, neutral or even disagreeable. The three fish in Still Life with Goldfish, 1972, a broad transcription from one of Matisse's still lifes of 60 years before, wear dyspeptic expressions and seem not at all pleased with the painting of a giant Lichtenstein golf ball on the wall behind them...
Other impressive performances--both by teams and by individuals--highlighted a generally successful winter sports season. The men's basketball squad's 16-10 season ranks high on the list, if only because the record contrasts sharply with the aura of pusillanimity that has followed the hoopsters in recent--and not so recent--seasons. The old and the new mixed effectively for the Crimson quintet, with senior co-captains Mark Harris and Tom Mannix leading a relatively young squad...