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...none of these events interests you, the obvious solution is to drown your sorrow in another ice cream cone and find a better game for yourself -- perhaps frisbee on the Charles...
...plasticulture. A tractor huffs across the field trailing a 20-in. band of black film from a big roll. Two disks cut furrows under the film's edges, rubber wheels press the edges down, and another pair of disks covers them with soil. Planting is done by hollow cone-shaped spikes that punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth and moisture under the film, the seeds sprout quickly and grow up through...
...Cone to Crazy Quilt. With such castoffs, Cézanne did the spadework for cubism. He laid the landscape bare to its essential structure, yet cloaked it in a crazy quilt of color like a Jack Frost with spring fever. Unlike his contemporary impressionists, he wanted to show the unchanging longitude and latitude of the earth rather than the fleeting snapshot of the instant. But he left to the later cubists the task of actually depicting the geometry of "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" of his famous dictum on the elements...
...freaks, probably carried long distances by rivers or glaciers. The Murfreesboro diggings-at best a poor relation of the famous diamond "pipes"' of South Africa-are genuine. Ages ago, a volcano must have erupted in what is now Arkansas. Presumably that geologic hiccup eventually resulted in an impressive cone, but hundreds of millions of years of erosion wore it down. The only remnants were traces of the lava that once filled the volcano's vent. The lava was kimberlite, named after Kimberley, South Africa, and as it disintegrated, it released a few diamonds...
...equanimity did not calm the advertisers, whose faith in rating services was clearly shaken. Said Paul E. J. Gerhold, director of marketing services for Foote, Cone & Belding: "Restoring the confidence of business in television audience figures, after these hearings, may well require setting up a completely independent facility to produce and publish spot checks on the accuracy of the syndicated data...