Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musician. But no one has come closer to unearthing civilization's lost chord than Anne D. Kilmer, who is a professor of Assyriology at the University of California at Berkeley. After five years' study of clay tablets discovered in an excavation of the city of Ugarit (now Ras Shamra, Syria), which flourished more than 3,000 years ago, Kilmer deciphered the thin cuneiform script as the words and musical symbols of an ancient song. Older by 1,400 years than the 400 B.C. papyrus that contains music for Euripides' play Orestes, Kilmer's finding...
Jean-Louis Bertucelli's Ramparts of Clay, Friday, March...
...woefully naive about the gimmicks and techniques that charlatans may use for mystical effects. James Randi, who appears on television as "the Amazing Randi," duplicates many of Uri Geller's achievements with a combination of sleight of hand, misdirected attention and patented paraphernalia, then calls them feats of clay...
...inhabitants, was dwarfed by the huge cliffs that vaulted high into the sky above it. The cluster of tin- and thatch-roofed adobe houses looked fragile at the foot of that implacable slab of rock, whose only distinction from the surrounding stark Andes was its lurid clay-red color, which seemed to brood over some dark mysterious secret life in the village below...
...Energy crisis-bull! I have not talked to one person who believes it is not contrived. We have had every shortage in the past year that one can imagine. Would you believe a girl at a florist shop told me the reason I could not find a large clay pot was because of a "clay-pot crisis...