Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ghovandi railroad station, a 1 quarter-mile away, other refugees cluster around small fires. At nightfall, children and adults alike spread blankets out on the platform to sleep. Change Sampat Lokhande, a farm laborer, tells a familiar story: "The fields in my village had no water. I had to leave. How do I get food? Some of us beg. Some stay in front of grain shops and wait for the grain to spill. Then they scoop it up and hurry back here...
...white-hot gas. To kick out of earth orbit (which requires much less thrust than an earth launch), the 270-ft.-long ships will fire-and then discard-the two outboard NERVAs strapped to their sides; the main booster, at the center of the engine cluster, will be retained. Then, as the two ships pull away from earth orbit, they will be docked end to end to form a single unit within which the crews can pass back and forth through airlocks...
...suicide at 30. Honorable discharges for Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey and James Michener. Of that generation of promising World War II novelists, only two have combined the talent, versatility, nerve, style and combative instincts to make it in the great big American way that joins the oakleaf cluster of durable celebrity to money. Obviously one is Norman Mailer. The other, not usually thought of as having been a young war novelist, is Gore Vidal. At 20 he published Williwaw, a taut, widely praised tale of life aboard a World War II Army tanker in the North Pacific...
...stay. The Soviets have built permanent barracks for their soldiers, apartment houses for their officers and wives, and schools for Russian children. Certain choice seats are reserved for them at the National Theater and several concert halls. Understandably, the Soviet occupiers avoid mingling with the local population, preferring to cluster together in public places, often talking in whispers to one another. Even in civilian clothes, Russian soldiers are easily recognized by their crude serge suits, heavily starched shirts and close-cropped hair...
More serenely beautiful is Duration Piece No. 31, which documents in ten photos taken in a progressive time sequence a continuous stream of water flowing down a cluster of icicles. Adding a humorous note, the same water was later used to prepare the chemicals that developed and fixed the photographs. The photos are not arranged in chronological order; as we view them, we tend to look for the progressive formation of new icicles. When we discover the water was later used for the photos, we are freed from closing our concept on its frozen form. We now look...