Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lunch brought that favorite of professional wrestling fans, puree mongol soup, the only soup around that will burn a hole in your pants should you mistake the latter for your mouth...
...growth-is one of the material obsessions of Oriental art. Of all substances from which sculpture could be made, wood was the closest to life. But other materials were more durable. Most surviving Chinese sculpture, from the Chou dynasty (1122-222 B.C.) onwards, is in substances that do not burn, rot or get worm-eaten: stone, ceramic, bronze. Nevertheless, the tradition of wooden sculpture was immense. It cannot be exhausted in one show; but this week a delectable exhibition of 70 objects, all from Western collections, opens at Manhattan's Asia House Gallery. Entitled "Masterworks in Wood: China...
...working people to take control of their own lives and overcome oppression. This message serves as a powerful source of political comment for everyone I know who has seen the film. The only other political films whose impact is at all comparable are those of Pontecorvo on colonialism--especially Burn (with Brando) and the Battle of Algiers...
...those years. A somewhat abstract appreciation of humankind, of the heroism of the everyday life, a little from Tolstoy, a little from Dylan Thomas. A growing sense that history could be nudged-even shoved-with some hardheaded planning and trying, as his own history showed. A slowly smoldering burn against a social order in which blacks had to take white meanness as a given. But in those days he did not say much of what he thought...
...beginning of the end comes when the star has exhausted much of the hydrogen near its core and starts to burn the hydrogen in its outer layers. This process causes the star gradually to turn red and swell to 100 times its previous size, pouring out prodigious amounts of energy. Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is such a "red giant," visible to the naked eye. When the sun undergoes a similar metamorphosis, it will envelop Mercury and Venus and vaporize the earth. By that time, 5 billion years from now, man's descendants may have found a new home...