Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CONCERNED PARENTS DEMAND REMOVAL OF ARSENIC FROM PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS("'Our schoolchildren, some as young as the fourth grade, are being exposed to this deadly element in their science classes...
...reason that public debate has become so stunted lately, I think, is because of the loss of that informative element," he said...
Indeed, Bennahum describes how the social and familial element of computers took off in the early 1980s, a movement similar to how the Internet and email have revolutionized communication in the 1990s. Underground BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise...
Sometimes the element of choice is all but eliminated...
...throwing paint on it from the edges, and the loops and lashes that resulted have a grace and energy that his labored hand drawing never reached. Then there was the pouring, the overlay, one color bleeding into another, producing marbled effects, mists, separations, spots and speckles, each with its element of chance, but all controlled by the prepared mind that chance favors. And the retouching and linkages, done with a brush. "Glory be to God for dappled things!" the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once exclaimed, and that's what crosses one's mind in front of such works...