Word: cone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three stories in this collection. But even here, as in the memorable title piece of his previous book of stories, Among the Dangs (1961), he insists on the moral. The sci-fi gimmicks of his fantasy worlds point metaphorically back to the truths of the real world. Into the Cone of Cold is typical: a poet allows himself to be frozen and thawed out again in a scientific experiment; beyond the spooky suspense of the situation, the cone of cold comes to stand for a state of spiritual exile from which the poet must grope back to an altered life...
...memorial retrospective. Before long, palettes all over Montmartre darkened as artists imitated Cezanne's can vases, which emphasized structure at the expense of color. The result was cubism, which is based in part on Cezanne's injunction: "Nature must be treated through the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." Vlaminck tried his hand at cubism, but with no great success. After four years in the French army, he emerged to develop his later moody, tempestuous vision; to the end of his days, he reviled Picasso as "the gravedigger of French...
...soon noticed that there was some white, crystal-like powder on the face of a moth that was ready to emerge from its cocoon. Most of the enzyme crystals were on two cone-shaped structures on the face, called maxillae, which scientists had hither-to believed useless to the silk moth. Kafatos also found concentrated enzyme solution in the maxillae's cells, which squeeze the solution out through fine tubes leading to the surface of the maxillae. The enzyme, mixed with the liquid of the old silk tubes, gets painted over the cocoon's tip, thus dissolving the cocoon...
...destroy about 3,000,000 metric tons of other valuable metals a year; magnetic extractors could save the metal and reduce incineration by 10%. The packaging industry could do a profound service by switching to materials that rot-fast. The perfect container for mankind is the edible ice-cream cone. How about a beer container that is something like a pretzel? Or the soft-drink bottle that, when placed in the refrigerator, turns into a kind of tasty artificial ice? Soft drinks could also come in frozen form, as popsicles with edible sticks...
...support-the-war vendor you can see several blocks down the street. A picture of people at tea includes most of the room. His idea is a good one, and he uses it best in a photo of the light on a man eating an ice cream cone. His subject matter, however, isn't consistently interesting. So, sometimes when his pictures tell us, "Look, here's what it is and where it is," we just don't care...