Word: bee
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Magnified 615 times with the scanning electron microscope, the body of a carpenter bee resembles a forest in a nightmare. At 13,818 times, a crack in an eggshell is a mysterious view of a devastating earthquake. In Magnifications (Schocken; 119 pages; $24.95), Photographer David Scharf takes the reader on a visual adventure into microspace. The images are beyond normal senses, but through the microscope Scharf puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals...
Bellows' dustups with Allbritton accelerated in May when the Texan installed Sacramento Bee General Executive James H. Smith as president. "He looks upon a paper as a money machine," says a former Bee colleague. Though the Star's editorial staff had already been sliced from 286 to 242 before Smith arrived, the new president this month ordered a 10% staff cut. Fed up, Bellows resigned...
Bellows was first offered the Herald-Examiner editorship last May, but refused it. Dale also sounded out eight other candidates, including Esquire Editor Clay Felker and Sacramento Bee Managing Editor Frank McCulloch. When Dale heard of Bellows' friction with Star President Smith, he renewed his offer, and Bellows accepted. The price: a reported $100,000-a-year salary and a $500,000 addition to the Herald-Examiner editorial budget...
...years Louis had dominated African anthropology, at least in part by intimidating his rivals. But the elder Leakey's rugged existence was beginning to exact its toll. Never one to take care of himself, he had been suffering for years from the cumulative effects of tropical diseases, concussions, bee stings and snakebites. He had also seen his son assume the directorship of the National Museums of Kenya. Now the conflict between the two became so intense that it threatened to split the family. Mary began to spend more and more time away at Olduvai, while Louis and Richard pointedly avoided...
Rostropovich has a distinctly colloquial talent for giving instructions to the orchestra. For a crisp pizzicato, he says: "I want hear champagne corks popping." For a soft passage: "Before the sound is coming, smell some bee-oo-tee-fool flowers." For a lyrical passage: "You don't say 'I LOFF YOU!' You whisper [cuddling an imaginary violin] 'I LOFF YOU.' " For a subito forte (to play suddenly loud): "Imagine you with your girl friend. Suddenly your wife come into room. That is subito forte...