Word: descent
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...most cherished artist--drew 558,000 visitors to his retrospective at the National Gallery.) That same year O'Keeffe's Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, 1929, was sold at auction for the artist's record of $1.98 million. In the decade since, her paintings have seen the curve of descent and rise that the art market, in general, has known. "Now O'Keeffe's values are picking up," says Andrew Schoelkopf, a senior vice president at Christie's in New York City. "She is hot again...
...about mankind's first encounter with extraterrestrials? No, I don't mean the gaggle of CNN anchors and correspondents who appear in Contact. I mean the three prominent newsmen who were featured in The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 1951 classic. In that film's opening moments, the descent of the flying saucer to Earth is breathlessly reported by NBC's H.V. Kaltenborn, radio commentator Elmer Davis and muckraker Drew Pearson. Then as now, the producers believed the presence of journalists would lend an air of authenticity to their otherworldly plot...
...famine was "the darkest hour in [Irish] history," she said, stressing that the memory of famine links Ireland with people of Irish descent around the world and with people of third world countries in "an understanding of how devastating...famine...
...Viking 1 spent a month shooting detailed pictures of the surface, photos that enabled J.P.L. controllers to choose a safe spot for Viking 1's lander to touch down. On July 20, lander 1 separated from its orbiting mother ship. Using retrorockets, deploying a parachute and finally firing three descent engines, it bumped gently onto a rock-covered slope on the planet's southern hemisphere. Forty-five days later, the Viking 2 lander plopped down on more rugged terrain far to the north...
...this, merely to admire the purity of Devereaux's distilled exasperation, brought on by years of departmental politics and "the increasingly militant ignorance" of students. He was once a well-reviewed writer, though of only one book, and that short stories. But rather than agonize over their descent into professorial mediocrity, he and his colleagues, he decides, have "chosen, wisely perhaps, to be angry with each other rather than with ourselves." Wise enough. And when one addled prof goes off his medication and resumes cross-dressing, so is the counseling he receives: no pearls before...