Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wine: Fermented juice of grapes." -Webster's International Dictionary "Crush the pulp and stone of dates in a container, mix with hot water, clarify with lead acetate, add sugar to the mixture, then add chloridic acid. Heat to 60 or 70 degrees Centigrade. Let cool immediately and neutralize with potash." -Fake-wine recipe quoted in Italian court
...encrusted Ice Stick by Hans Haacke at the Milwaukee Art Center last week, visitors were expected to chill their fingers. All of the "Do Not Touch" signs in the gallery had been removed. OUCH! Gallerygoers could warm their fingers on three electrified aluminum columns that Sculptor John Goodyear calls Heat Sequence. And they could sit upon and be jiggled about by Royce Dendler's mechanized box titled Vibrate. By pressing buttons, they could activate David Jacobs' siren and two aluminum-and-rubber resonators, entitled collectively Mother's Mechanical Wonderful...
Inventor Bert Adams demonstrated his new, nonrechargeable battery for the U.S. Army with understandable pride. Just as he claimed, it put out a steady current even in extreme heat or extreme cold. Worthless, said the military technicians. No, thank...
...instruments. Not once did the piece move slowly or the sound lose its rich quality. In the Allegretto especially, the opening theme was brought back with force and clarity. By the response of the audience, it was clear that the musicians had overcome the handicaps of the heat and Sanders Theatre...
...whole week, it has been hot. And there are not too many ways to get away from the heat. You can walk around outside, because it is usually cooler out there, or go to the Brattle and watch a W. C. Fields movie you have seen three times already on television, or you can sleep in Lamont, just lie down and sleep, because it is air-conditioned there...