Word: cyclopean
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...Valleys need climate records that extend over a longer period of time, and now it appears they may finally have them. In November, the University of Illinois' Doran and his colleagues retrieved a series of sediment cores from the bottom of three lakes that march up Taylor Valley like Cyclopean footprints: Fryxell, Hoare and Bonney. These cores are layered like the pages of a history book, and the record of geochemical shifts they contain can be used to reconstruct lake levels and stream flow for past centuries. Doran thinks that the record from Lake Fryxell may extend back...
...spectacular success: the casting of one of the world's largest telescope mirrors, a single 6.5-m (21-ft.) circle of glass that sometime in 1994 will be hauled by flatbed truck to the top of Arizona's Mount Hopkins, where it will tilt skyward like a giant Cyclopean...
Considering the Cyclopean onslaught of photographers the royal family must endure, it is rather a quaint sight to catch them squinting into the lens themselves. Like a good sportsman's wife, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, was front and center to watch Prince Philip, 60, in the three-day Royal Windsor Horse Show's carriage-driving contest. The prince, who started racing coaches at 50 after he gave up polo, has been a runner-up four times in the past, but this year he reined supreme. Presented the first-place trophy by his No. 1 fan, Philip smiled...
...Guston's figurative work that is not deliberate, and no clumsiness that is not feigned? Between the early and the late '70s the scope of his vision and the resonance of his images deepened steadily; those phalanxes of knobby knees and boots like Uccello horseshoes, those bloodshot cyclopean eyes and gut piles of pink carcasses acquired, despite their comic-strip mannerisms of drawing, a degree of pessimism that verged on the tragic. Guston's Head and Bottle, 1975, with its profile of a face (a self-portrait?) violently compressed into an eye and a chin prickled with...
...every ex-schoolboy has probably forgotten, Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" after examining the untaxed sachems of the Gilded Age, their mansions, yachts, gargantuan dinner parties and cyclopean stickpins. In The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Veblen did not hide his disdain for such display. He belonged to an era of sociology before it married computer science, bred statistics and headed for the neutral horizons of market research...