Word: handiworks
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...skeptical scientific inquiry over tabloid headlines. For 13 years people had been concocting increasingly bizarre explanations for those mysterious circles and lines pressed into the grain fields of southern England. Were they the landing sites of UFOs? No, the crop circles -- or at least some of them -- were the handiwork of a pair of elderly British landscape painters who engineered the elaborate hoax (with string and planks) "for a bit of a laugh...
...Gorbachev at Malta, the State Department floated the idea that the U.S. should seek a ban on mobile MIRVed ICBMs. The department tried to promote the plan at the White House as a way of giving a "Bush stamp" to a START treaty that was otherwise largely the inherited handiwork of the Reagan Administration...
...they stood at the outer gate of the fair-tressed goddess, and within they heard Circe singing in a sweet voice, as she fared to and fro before the great web imperishable, such as is the handiwork of goddesses They cried aloud and called to her. And straightway she came forth and opened the shining doors and bade them in, and all went with her in their heedlessness . . . Now when she had given them the cup and they had drunk it off, presently she smote them with a wand, and in the sties of swine she penned them. So they...
...Betsy Ross, it certainly found one in Orest Kaledin. On a stroll through Lvov (pop. 860,000), the largest city in the Western Ukraine, the biologist turned flagmaker points to five new yellow-and-blue national banners flapping from the town hall. They are his and his wife's handiwork, says Kaledin with pride. He dreams of designing uniforms and ensigns for a revived Ukrainian army. Pointing out a friend on the street -- a scrawny person of decidedly unmilitary bearing -- he explains confidentially that the young man is destined to become "one of our generals...
...paint it contains. The technique, computerized infrared reflectoscopy, is based on the fact that some pigments that reflect light in the visible range (like cadmium red) are more or less transparent to infrared light. By looking through these layers, art historians can catch glimpses of the artist's original handiwork: rough sketches, repaintings and the occasional erasure. Other techniques, notably X-ray analysis, had been used in the past. The major advantage of using a computer with a video display screen is that the artwork can be superimposed over the infrared image, making the slightest differences easily visible...