Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tree." In working, he may decide to paint only the skin of the serpent, or the texture of wood. This usually involves mixing marble dust or sand with his dark pigments: the result is like a shallow bas-relief with muted colors suggestive of the earth's own crust. Tàpies confesses to "struggling" with his materials, then intently observing the outcome: "I am the first spectator before my canvas. I am a normal man. If it touches me, it will touch...
Hollyhocks & Daisies. The trio was an instant hit with the literary upper crust. There was in fact only one unbeliever in the crowd, one William Haskins, instructor in English at Northwestern University. Demanded Corso: "Man, why are you knocking the way I talk? I don't knock the way you talk. You don't know about the hollyhocks." Replied Haskins: "If you're going to be irrelevant, you might as well be irrelevant about hollyhocks." Countered Corso: "Man, this is a drag. You're nothing but a creep-a creep! But I don't care...
Some unknown force must support the bulges, which could not exist if the earth were a simple, spinning mass of plastic material. One possibility: the earth's mantle (the 1,800-mile layer below the crust) may not be as plastic as has been thought. It may have mechanical strength, like brickwork, that keeps the earth out of shape. Another possibility: the bulges are supported by slow currents in the mantle, which push up the surface like massive bubbles in a spring...
...Kozyrev shows a spectrogram with an unusual bright streak, and explains what he thinks happened. The reddish patch over the crater's central peak he believes was caused by volcanic ash shot out of the moon's crust. The dust settled quickly, since there is no air to keep...
...great tides aroused in them by the nearby moon made the earth rotate more slowly. This made the moon spiral outward. As it moved, it crashed into the lesser satellites, each of them blasting an impact pit in its surface. The bigger pits punched through the moon's crust and were filled with lava from the molten interior. The biggest satellite of all, about 100 miles in diameter, hit the present site of the lunar plain called Mare Imbrium-the right eye of the "man in the moon...