Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sculptor who tried to make metaphors of technology, not even Calder, came up with an object as striking as Walter Teague's "Bluebird" radio, 1937-40, whose integration of a spartan constructivist design ethic into an American sense of technology as spectacle -- the big blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind...
...mummy currently stands in the Ether Dome atMGH as a symbol of Egyptian medicine. From thatlocation, he has witnessed many medicalmilestones, including the first publicdemonstration of anaesthesia...
...role was doubtless played by rumors that created an explosive trading environment, like a roomful of ether waiting for a spark. One story, quickly squelched, was that Ronald Reagan had suffered a heart attack. Most of the other rumors involved speculation about renewed inflation and higher interest rates, the traditional enemies of stocks. At one point, word spread that two governors of the Federal Reserve believed interest rates, on a long two-year slide, had bottomed out. One broker was so confident of the information, which turned out to be false, that he told a client to call back...
Using crack is easier and less complicated than free-basing cocaine. Since powdered coke cannot be ignited and smoked, free-basers wash a cocaine base with ether to clean out impurities. Once dried, the residue is heated with a torch and smoked. The extreme volatility of ether makes this a dangerous way to get high--as the general public learned in 1980 when Comedian Richard Pryor set himself on fire while free-basing...
...Berk can testify, there are special risks in relying on computer systems that are shared with thousands of strangers. She once spent three days reconstructing her client contact list after an unidentified hacker broke into a confidential mailbox on The Source and dispatched her private storage files into the ether...