Word: egg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always thought that Hurd's technique of egg tempera [Jan. 29] was on the scrambled side, strictly for soft-boiled quacks. But your article and accompanying full-color reproductions have made me an egg-tempera enthusiast forever-sunny side...
...diffractions and called on an IBM 7090 computer to interpret their results. Finally, they found the long-sought formula which is unlike that of any other known poison. Then a group of chemists at Stanford University led by Professor Harry S. Mosher found the same poison in egg clusters of California newts. Both U.S. and Japanese chemists are now trying to figure out why such distantly related animals as fish and newts should have the same rare poison...
...costumes, traditionally Early Elizabethan, became instead Late Salvation Army; most of the wardrobe was scrounged from thrift shops. The king wore ski pants; his scepter was a three-foot-long egg beater. The queen's ornate crown was made of plastic spoons melted together. One tramp had a hockey player's metal groin protector sewed to this pants, another swigged wine from a rubber enema...
...unvarying breakfast of eggnog, toast and coffee at sunup, then goes riding across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an exhibition of 98 paintings that documents nearly 35 years of the artist's minute...
...World Population, contends that it is no more difficult or dangerous than an appendectomy. It must be done in a hospital under general anesthesia. Through an abdominal incision, a gynecological surgeon cuts both Fallopian tubes and ties off the separated ends. After that there is no way for an egg to pass from the ovary to the womb...