Word: exoticisms
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A record plasma temperature-130 million degrees Celsius-has been attained at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory with another variety of magnetic machine: the 2XII-B, which consists of an open-ended tube surrounded by magnets. Extra-powerful magnetic fields at the ends of the tube...
The serious listener should have no problems, however, with Lieberman's music; one never feels "put on" by the composer or performer, and there is nothing gimmicky or superficially exotic here. Jeannie Lieberman, Bruce Kushnick and Richard Johnson have all worked hard on this labor of love, and their efforts...
For the first couple of miles I hung loose, enjoyed the rural sights, tried to laugh, and admired the spectators that lined the streets, as they would all the way to Boston. I'd heard that the locals really got into the 'Thon but I never really expected it to...
Lowell Thomas just keeps on schussing-even on his 85th birthday. A ski trip to the Canadian Rockies ended a 50,000-mile honeymoon for the peripatetic broadcaster and his second wife, Marianna Munn, 49. The couple married on Jan. 5 and wandered through the South Seas, the Far East...
The scandal of London in the 1920s was the young poet Edith Sitwell. She paraded around dressed in exotic costumes and wearing gigantic sapphires on her fingers. She wrote positively outrageous poetry and she went around discovering other poets, like Dylan Thomas, who were even more scandalous than herself. Facade...