Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great figurative artist who did not feel and exemplify it. It can be as poignant in Giotto or even in Poussin as it is in Cezanne or Matisse. For Matisse it was of prime importance, whereas in abstract art it tends to fall away, because one end of the cord is no longer anchored in the world and its objects. This is not an argument against abstraction, but it helps explain why, in those abstract paintings that derive from Matisse, one so rarely feels the urgency of their great exemplar...
...orbiting object in history. But like so many of the space agency's ambitious projects lately, this one didn't quite work out. The Italian-made satellite rose properly from the shuttle on a 10-m (39-ft.) boom, but the astronauts couldn't pull out its auxiliary power cord. When they finally got the cord out and began unreeling the satellite, the tether that kept it attached to the shuttle paid out for about 260 m (850 ft.) -- and then jammed, like a badly wound fishing reel. It jammed again when they tried to pull it in, and rather...
Still, it might have been worse. NASA has had little experience with tethered satellites, and no one was sure how this one would behave. There was some fear that it would wobble wildly at the end of its cord. The astronauts were prepared to cut the whole thing loose if the experiment threatened the shuttle. To the relief of the Italian Space Agency, that didn't happen, and the $379 million system may one day fly again...
...Right to Life Committee, voiced his opposition at a White House photo opportunity several months ago. "If that plan was in effect when I was born in Texas," Powell told the President, "I'd be dead today." As an infant, Powell developed an inoperable tumor that attacked his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Though the case seemed terminal, he was saved by an innovative doctor. Oregon Medicaid director Jean Thorne disputes Powell's charge. His condition would have been covered, she says, provided a physician could be found who considered it treatable...
...very idea that an incumbent president would run for reelection by the telling voters that change is necessary strikes an oxymoronic cord. As one old reporter put it, "In all the politics I've heard tell of...I don't recall a single politician ever having asked for a second term of office in order to make sure that the failed policies of his first would be abandoned in favor of something else...