Word: embeddedness
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During the war, Honeywell produced the BLU-26/B "guava" bomb. This bomb was first used in secret air raids on neutral Laos in 1966. One mother bomb contains 600 to 700 guavas, each of which releases high-speed steel pellets upon explosion, as well as hot plastic fragments which...
As for the unicorn cycles, praise is an impertinence. They vary in conceptual density. The Cluny Lady with the Unicorn set is a relatively straightforward metaphor of the five senses, so that the mythic beast gazes at itself in a mirror to signify Sight. By contrast, the Cloisters' unicorn...
ALTHOUGH HE SKIMPS on documentary films and filmmakers, Stott does ample justice to the period's journalists and photographers. He shows how their work attempted to draw the attention of an insulated middle class to the "portions of unimagined existence" embedded in the lives of the poor, the damaged and...
At bottom Isadora is a scared feminist, and what troubles her most is what she learned about herself in psychoanalysis. There, she found out about her Oedipal desires, about her masochistic need to be dominated and about her narcisstic need to be admired like the sexy Cover girl--all for...
Part of the answer is embedded in the history of Russia and its empire before the October 1917 revolution which brought the Bolsheviks to power. The story of Russia since 1600, like that of the United States, has been one of immense and nearly continual expansion. As the Tartar empire...