Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the ultraviolet TV pictures and data that the satellite transmits, scientists hope to learn more about the chemical composition of the stars, their temperatures, their rate of burning and their total energy emission. These characteristics in turn should help them understand how stars are born out of cosmic dust and gas, how heavy elements are formed in stars and how the universe itself evolved...
Into hot hay and heat-hammered road dust, makes no sound...
...Zinaida (Elizabeth Hartman) falsely accuses the fixer of rape. The recriminatory shriek becomes a chorus when religious fanatics also accuse Bok of ritual murder. The fixer is seized and imprisoned. The . machinery of the state begins: moved by a heritage of hate, it tries to grind the fixer to dust...
...accidents. This year alone, 190 men have died in the mines. Those are only the known casualties. It is estimated that at the very least, 10% of all active miners and 20% of those retired have contracted "black lung" (pneumoconiosis), a respiratory disease caused by years of inhaling coal dust...
...indicate, interaction must both precede and succeed innovation. Each work unites art and technology so successfully that it responds to a human touch or noise almost as though it were alive. Visitors at the Modern could plug themselves -by stethoscope-into Jean Dupuy's Poe-like Heart Beats Dust. The stethoscope is wired to a sensitive diaphragm inside a clear plastic case, and every time the viewer's heart thumps, a tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated Toy-Pet-Plexi-Ball...