Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This obsession led to an undeniable grandeur. An early composition like Still-Life: Bottles and Knife testifies to that. Tuned down to the subtlest inter play of gray over gray, unified by the stippled crust of Gris's opaque and polished pigment, these simple objects acquire the amplitude and severity of a Romanesque nave, and one realizes that when Gris used the word "architecture," he was not using a metaphor: the slanting displacement of the still life, as though seen through rolled glass, suggests a kind of response to structural loading-slippage, compression, shear. What Gris's work...
...lunar gravity and ranging in size from tiny pebbles to huge boulders many miles across-crashed into the enlarging moon, it eventually generated enough heat to turn the lunar surface into a sea of molten lava. Slowly, as the bombardment lessened, the lava cooled and hardened into a crust that was then cratered by the impact of the remaining debris. When the rain of rocks eventually ended some 3.9 billion years ago, the moon's surface was covered by great craters and basins. Other changes were still to come. Deep within the moon, heat from the slow decay...
...have baked the comet's exterior into a kind of "sticky glue" that prevented some of the cometary dust and gas from boiling off. University of Arizona Astronomer Elizabeth Roemer, for one, found this theory improbable. Comets, she explained, are too gaseous and fragile to develop such a crust. Other astronomers suggested that Kohoutek, a "virgin" comet making its first approach to the inner part of the solar system and never before exposed to the warmth of the sun, had flared up briefly when its more volatile materials boiled off. It was that early glow, observed when the comet...
...Crimson review of pizza last year touched off a "debate," as the pizza gourmets came out of the woodwork to defend their favorites. Joe's Pizza at 1 Linden St., and its sister shop on Plympton St., feature a thin crust. Pinocchio's at 74 Winthrop St. sells subs and pizza; most people who like a thicker crust frequent Pinocchio...
...photographs from a U.S. satellite showed two parallel lines, running through the northern outskirts of Tokyo, that may represent faults in the earth's crust. Then Japanese seismologists were shaken up by a U.S. colleague. Columbia University's Christopher H. Scholz (TIME, Aug. 27) suggested that the Tokyo region could expect a major earthquake within the next few years. Seismologist Tsuneji Rikitake was not convinced by Scholz's reasoning-"The art of earthquake prediction is about as accurate as Chinese astrology," he snapped-but he had to concede that the danger was there. "The energy accumulation right...