Word: crusts
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...less than half as large.) Its history is another. Out in deep space, a comet can get encrusted with a layer of gummy dust. This layer can seal in most of the ice and prevent it from vaporizing. Some gas may spurt out through cracks in the crust, giving a comet a premature air of greatness that amounts to not much...
...maybe the comet has been around the block too many times. The first visit loosens a comet's crust, making later go-rounds more impressive. If the comet comes through too often, however, a new crust can form out of dust falling back onto the surface. This too can lead to false optimism. "With Comet Halley, which has been back many times," says University of Texas astronomer Anita Cochran, "only about 15% to 20% of the surface is active." Admits Hale: "It's been kind of nerve-racking to sit through all those months wondering if the comet would fizzle...
...ought to hope you find yourself a comfortable bar stool no later than 8:30. And so we all make our way to Tommy's House of Pizza. Seemingly with self-respect, but really because it doesn't matter at that point, Tommy's, with its sesame crust, schizophrenic music superimposed on top of a close-captioned for the hearing-impaired rebroadcast of the Montel Williams show and unseemly Mortal Kombat video-game junkies, seems to be the only (and necessary) option, now. You and your friends actually have to struggle to be heard over the mass of people...
Showing her witty fashion sense, local flautist Paula Robison modelled a sassy red sequined gown and offered the delicious post-modern program of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" she had transcribed for flute. Robison enchanted a predominantly upper-crust Back Bay audience on Sunday at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum with her effervescent and joyful presence...
...tactic of genius. He could be appealing as the nation's ward healer, while lamenting the existence of deep, vast ills that no one believed a national leader could fix anyway. He carefully looked to determine which side his bread was buttered on, and saw that it was the crust...