Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of Connecticut Physics Professor Edgar Everhart is an amateur astronomer who has discovered one comet and is co-discoverer of an other. He takes his avocation seriously. When the city of Hartford installed street lights that Everhart considered needlessly bright, he complained that the glow they cast in the night sky interfered with celestial observations. But even Hartford's street lights paled into insignificance when Everhart got wind of Project Able-a little-publicized NASA and Defense Department project to put into orbit mirror-like satellites that would reflect the sun and illuminate large areas of earth...
...planet. But though the rings are wide, they are also incredibly thin-perhaps even less than a foot thick. Thus every 14 years or so, when the earth passes through Saturn's equatorial plane and astronomers can get an edge-on view of the rings, their glow practically disappears. In place of their familiar, disklike shape, the rings appear as a faint, straight line, much like the side view of a phonograph record held flat at eye level...
...bridge, and last week West Germans celebrated the opening of a bridge that seemed the very embodiment of their dreams of reunification. The structure, 656 feet long, spans the River Saale, the boundary that divides the southern parts of East and West Germany. To add to the glow, the bridge was the first project of any kind on which the two Germanys have collaborated: the West put up the money, the East supplied the labor...
There is something irresistibly luminous and mischievous in her radiant face and blue eyes-not the glaze of an It girl, but the glow of an imp. It is doubtful that the boys in Viet Nam regard her as their favorite pinup. She does have more sex appeal than, say, ZaSu Pitts, but it is also obvious that a Liz Taylor she's not. If there is an animal splendor about her, it is more pussycat than panther. Her curves do not pop the eyes. Her legs are a little too lean and a mite long...
...traditional technique from glass paintings she had discovered in the Bavarian town of Murnau, where the two eventually settled. It is a difficult medium; details and glazes are brushed on first, the background pigments next. As the colors are enhanced through the refraction of the glass, the lustrous surfaces glow like medieval icons. Kandinsky, a lifelong Eastern Orthodox, instantly took to his new-found art form, even decorating the frames to give his works a handcrafted look...