Word: frigid
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VATICAN. Some 78,000 people daily have been viewing the Pieta. That its monumental tenderness manages to penetrate the frigid atmosphere is a tribute to Michelangelo's genius. In the chapel upstairs is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture, also from the Vatican's vast collection...
VATICAN. Some 70.000 people daily have been filing past the Pieta. That its monumental tenderness manages to penetrate the frigid atmosphere is a tribute to Michelangelo's genius. In the chapel upstairs is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture lent by St. Peter...
...lost one electron. But where did this calcium come from? At the corona's temperature, 3,000,000º, calcium loses nearly all its 20 electrons and shows the loss by emitting a different kind of light. In the singly ionized state, calcium cannot exist above a comparatively frigid...
...servant of desire and has been without love too long. But she is repelled, slaps him, and rushes away. Neither one has conquered; but whether this means that the aristocracy and lower classes will never mix or that class will always tell or that deep down Susan is frigid is ony another frustrating imponderable. All that is left is what we already knew: Tony sagging in a stupor, his face framed in the bars of a bannister...
...size and numeration, or Thiebaud's wife posing as a bather with a double-dip strawberry ice-cream cone-juts forward like a sculptured relief from a general porcelain-white background. The whiteness helps isolate the image; the garish fluorescent lighting that commercialism loves bathes everything in its frigid glare. Thiebaud makes long, curling highlights out of polychromatic contours that do not exist outside...