Word: glazing
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...Harvard football Coach Joe Restic scans the page his brow furrows and then his eyes begin to glaze. As he reads and rereads the column of penciled in names. Restic can't suppress a smile the one you get when you've cursed the darkness long enough but you still don't have a match...
Then, too, consistency may be dangerous and destructive. Marianne Moore wrote a poem, "The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing," in which she compared the iridescence of the human mind with the "glaze on a katydid-wing," to emphasize its perpetual variety and mutability. "It's not a Herod's oath that cannot change," she concluded, invoking a most terrible example in the figure of Herod, who would not prof it from experience, who would not alter his position even when heaven screamed...
...track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid of traditional and new technologies, looks both archaic and slick...
Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...
...motor skills and long-range self-interpretations, are so interrelated that one cannot substitute an abstractable web of explicit beliefs for the whole cloth of our concrete everyday practice." Marianne Moore saw the web her own way: "The mind is an enchanting thing,/ is an enchanted thing/ like the glaze on a/ katydid-wing/ subdivided by sun/ till the nettings are legion,/ Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti." In short, human intelligence is too intricate to be replicated. When a computer can smile at an enemy, cheat at cards and pray in church all in the same day, then, perhaps, man will...