Word: glue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coach hadn't found a howit-ser-armed quarterback; he'd discovered a real gang of tall, strong, glue-fingered ends. These guys, thought Lamar, could make an aerial offense go with an average passer throwing the ball...
Neither of Bucknell's glue-fingered ends, Tom Mitchell and Ron Kinsey, was selected...
Pulses & Echoes. With Jimmy anesthetized, Dr. Passmore first rolled the left eyeball over in its socket and applied heat, to "glue" the retina in place so that it would not become detached during surgical manipulation. With an ultrasound device that worked from outside the eyeball, Dr. Bronson was able to get a rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick...
...show at Manhattan's Associated American Artists print gallery reveals how diverse are the means of graphic art. Called "The Plate, the Block, the Stone and the Print," the show contrasts the medium with the result-often as dramatic as the difference between rabbit glue (that's one new art material) and beauty. The apparently blank expression of a plate can, when variously inked and pressed on paper, become more radiant than a rainbow...
Some new graphics treat paper itself like a sculptor's bas-relief. Colombian-born Omar Rayo, 36, makes an inkless intaglio, such as From My Zoo, by building up patterned layers of cardboard coated with rabbit glue and gesso, then pressing wet paper under hundreds of pounds of pressure to emboss a white-on-white print. Boris Margo, 62, similarly makes a "cellocut" by carving into celluloid, coating it with copper, and stamping it into uninked paper...