Word: float
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structures, or 20% of U.S. commercial and public properties, are believed to contain the mineral, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In about two-thirds of buildings with asbestos, some of the material is in a friable state, which means it is crumbling into microscopic fibers that can float through the air. (There has yet been no federal survey of single-family homes, but a preliminary study indicated that houses tend to have relatively low levels of airborne asbestos...
...haunting lilt of pop standards. His output embraces dozens of television plays, half a dozen screenplays and two novels. But the range of Potter's work is less impressive than its searing ferocity and compassion. His haunted characters dwell in the surreal land we all inhabit, as we float vagrantly from suffocating reality to liberating fantasy, from pessimism to possibility, from fear to hope -- and then back, always back again, when we realize that the conditional tense holds even more horror than the present. Ultimately a Potter protagonist is likely to realize, like Dorothy back from Oz, that life...
Gorbachev knows that neither the lame-duck President nor the President-elect is in a position to transact much meaningful business. That will give the Soviet leader an ideal opportunity to float bold ideas, then sit back and watch as the two Americans respond tentatively, if not defensively...
Eastern sensibilities -- specifically the delicate seasonings of Japan -- also float through Elizabeth Andoh's An Ocean of Flavor (Morrow; $20.95). Andoh, an American who is married to a Japanese and has spent many years in Japan, makes a fine guide to that country's methods of enhancing the flavor of seafood without obliterating it. She explains as well the techniques of frying, poaching, grilling and cutting raw fish for the right textural contrasts and warns about pollutants and parasites. Fried soft-shell crabs in a spicy sauce, cold poached tilefish with mustard-miso sauce and fiddlehead ferns, and a careful...
Barges and ferryboats float along one side while automobile traffic skitters by on the other. Just past Grant's Tomb on the Hudson it looms: seven city blocks of arched white concrete with miles of pretzeling pipes and a sprouting of cylindrical smokestacks. This is the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, processor for a billion gallons of sewage a week and a monument in its own right. For decades, pols, bureaucrats and engineers here tangled over how to deal with so many people flushing and washing and whatnot. While they jawed, everything went straight into the Hudson River...