Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look all the time," Hopper explains, "for something that suggests something to me. I think about it. Just to paint a representation or a design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you put on canvas, the more you lose control of the thought. I've never' been able to paint what I set out to paint...
...faun. One instant the camera is following the progress of a paramecium as it scoots through the heavy microscopic traffic. A few frames later the moviegoer may find himself staring at a luminous line of what seem to be huge purple carboys filled with a red-gold fluid and hanging in a rack, but prove to be vastly bloated ants-the living storage vats of the honey-cask tribe. There is some marvelous stop-motion cinematography. Roots grow like wild white worms before the watcher's eyes. Gourds bulge, flowers bloom, tomatoes blush. Best of all are the scenes...
...Towne Research Center at Valley Forge, had been testing new devices for large and heavy hydraulic valves used in Yale fork lift trucks, when he worked on and developed the tiny new silicone plastic valve in a stainless steel body on an entirely new medical principle to control the fluid from the head into the bloodstream. Holter now has been provided by Yale & Towne with precision tools in his home workshop in which to devote his full time to producing many more of the lifesaving brain valves...
...human diseases, few produce more fantastic results than a cystic tumor of the ovary: as it fills with fluid, such a tumor may grow to monstrous proportions. The archives are inconclusive as to the biggest tumor ever recorded, but last week Dr. Dan H. Eames Jr. of La Marque, Texas achieved an unquestioned record of the size of a tumor removed intact...
...clinic. Dr. Eames faced a hard decision. One school of surgeons holds that it is too dangerous to remove a big tumor intact because this may throw the patient into shock; another holds that it is more dangerous to drain the tumor first and then remove the husk, because fluid containing malignant cells may spill into the abdominal cavity. Surgeon Eames decided to run the risk of shock, try to get the tumor out unbroken and undrained...