Word: charcoaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause of cancer may be burned food, such as overdone, charcoal-broiled steaks. This startling suggestion came last week from one of the world's greatest authorities, the University of Chicago's Dr. Charles Brenton Huggins, 59, who has saved countless lives by developing effective treatments for prostate and breast cancers...
...presence-a quality that has little to do with acting. Many sopranos and actresses have been called "the essential female" but Leontyne Price convinces most of her audiences that she really fits the description. Not beautiful but with almost translucent brown skin, high cheekbones, and compelling eyes set in charcoal shadows, she has a memorable face; her figure-broad-hipped yet lithe, strong yet feminine, medium tall yet commanding-animates any costume she wears, and she can whip a train or thrust a sleeve with regal authority...
Pure Force. In the current show hangs another Washington, which only hints at the figure, usually through quick, strong charcoal lines suggesting an arm, a torso, a head. Even his most realistic canvas, Last Civil War Veteran, hovers on the edge of abstraction, just as the old soldier himself hovers on the edge of death. In all the other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with...
...vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite who rarely pool anything beyond the cars with which the wives chauffeur the kids to school each day. But one lazy Sunday afternoon, between the Bloody Marys and the charcoal-broiled steaks, sudden fear glues Peaceable Lane together. An odd man wants in; a Negro is dickering for the house right next door to Matt Jones...
This dating system, which Libby checked on ancient objects of known age, such as human hair from Egyptian tombs, has been fabulously successful. It is now used to date objects as diverse as charcoal from neolithic campfires, and trees killed by Ice Age glaciers. It won Libby his well-deserved Nobel Prize...