Word: braced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...felt that they could not be really dependable as a quake-prediction signal without a more fundamental understanding of what was causing them. That explanation was already available. In the 1960s, while studying the reaction of materials to great mechanical strains, a team of researchers under M.I.T. Geologist William Brace had discovered that as rock approaches its breaking point, there are unexpected changes in its properties. For one thing, its resistance to electricity increases; for another, the seismic waves passing through it slow down...
...acceptable. But anyone who was around in the 1940s knows that the detective's only authorized dramatic representative was Basil Rathbone.* With his incisive features and voice, Rathbone was one of the few actors of his time who actually appeared capable of complex deductive reasoning. As for Nigel Brace's Dr. Watson, he was every bit the equal of Rathbone's Holmes. No one in the history of movies ever did more eloquent slow takes as he struggled to absorb and analyze the new insights and information his partner in criminology constantly threw...
...time when every trade, from market research to plumbing, is said to have a "philosophy," we sooner or later had to get The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $7.95). This necessarily slim volume will be one of the curiosities of the coming fall. Lack of appetite means dull writing, and Warhol's specialty is absence of Lebenslust. His act has been to desire nothing more than fame, money and the occasional Hershey bar. He has become a parody of the Astomes, those fabled inhabitants of the medieval bestiaries who, living entirely on air, possessed neither anus...
...pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from the theft of two Piero della Francescas and a Raphael from Urbino twelve days before. Said he: "This theft sounds an ultimate...