Word: glue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings court vulgarity every inch of the way. Their forms, based on the French curves used by architectural draftsmen, are cut from honeycombed aluminum. But they are loaded with color, blaring with the kind of greedy, apoplectic vitality. On first sight, they look as though a squad of glue-snorting graffitists had been let loose with crayons, spray cans and party glitter in a constructivist warehouse. Surfaces that Stella would once have left pure and flat are loaded with rich, scribbled color. The shapes slice and crash, in and out, mocking the conventions of flatness and integrity of the picture...
...dubbed influenza A. In 1946-47 another form of A emerged, and about this time virologists working with electron microscopes made an important discovery. They found that the outer coat of each virus particle is studded with hundreds of protein spikes. There are two types: hemagglutinin, a biochemical glue that makes red cells clump together and helps the virus get into cells, and an enzyme called neuraminidase that dissolves the glue and helps the virus get out of cells. These spikes are also the antigenic proteins that stimulate the human system to produce antibodies against future infections...
Unweds and newlyweds and suddenly de-weds have traditionally made do with orange crates and teetery constructions of brick and board. Quite recently, many Americans have discovered that they can assemble stylish, comfortable, totable furnishings with paper, cardboard, plywood, Masonite, rough lumber, foam rubber, epoxy glue, a staple gun and unlimited imagination. Moreover, the home Hepplewhite can construct anything from a coffee table to a meditation center that fits his or her own vision, taste and living quarters. Inexpensively. And almost instantly...
...glue that holds the contract together lies in the realization by the reporter that he is dependent on the good will of his source to better serve his readers in the long run. If he violates the contract, he could well end up alienating a vital source. This contract is not legally binding; it is simply an informal pact...
...mythology, grammar and history. Nearby classrooms resounded to the ring of Ovid and Livy as the oratorical-minded -swathed in togas-declaimed before judges. Other judges trod carefully past papier-mache Pantheons and temples and an intricate mosaic depicting Medea fleeing to Athens, constructed from rice, grits and glue by a Tennessee contestant...