Word: correspondant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...geometry, pyramid power in paint. Hence, too, the peculiar use of light by artists like Franticek Kupka -- a shuddering, lyric vibration that implies the sublimities of landscape without describing them. Then there is the imagery of duality and paired opposites -- light-dark, vertical-horizontal -- and of synesthesia, whereby colors correspond to musical tones, or textures to tastes...
...scanning tunneling microscope, invented by Binnig and Rohrer, records the position of a needle that rises and dips to keep constant height while moving across the tiny irregularities on the surface of a specimen. The ups correspond to the bumps of individual atoms, and the downs to spaces between them, producing an atomic-scale contour...
...spending spree. Cocaine blocks the return of the neurotransmitters to the nerve cells for reuse. Eventually the brain is squeezed dry and craves stimulation. Addicts who try to recapture the high by smoking more crack only aggravate the neurochemical deficiency. Says Rosecan: "We think these physical changes correspond to the psychological changes of the crash--depression, irritability, paranoia and craving...
Since the competition can be fierce, film societies often tailor their approaches to correspond to a particular house's stereotype. Adams and Dunster Houses, for example, tend to show artsy and foreign films. "We don't show regular movies like The Graduate because we don't see the point of showing accessible movies," says Dunster film society President Mark Csikszentmihalyi...
...Such actions from the French side do not correspond with its declarations about its will to maintain and develop good relations with the USSR, and the responsibility for the consequences of this action are incumbent on the French side," the Soviet spokesman said...