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...early '80s, though, telescope designers were leaping all over the place. University of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel's solution to the sagging-glass problem was to cast huge mirrors that are mostly hollow, with a honeycomb-like structure inside to guarantee stiffness. University of California at Santa Cruz astronomer Jerry Nelson opted instead to create a mirror not from a single huge slab of glass but from 36 smaller sheets that would, under a computer's control, act as one. And in Europe, design teams came up with yet another idea, the exact opposite of Angel's: instead of making...
...With academics arguably not behind the match between student and school, from either perspective, the regulations seem somewhat hollow...
...Death of a Child" (1927-28) is an especially haunting watercolor: children dressed in red and blue appear on a playground, fenced off from the adults in the black and gray street who have been reduced to figures out of Munch's "Scream"-both elongated and hunched with hollow eyes. Shortly after the burial of her father, a railroad clerk, Neel painted "Dead Father" (1946): a gentle-looking man, slightly too stiff to be asleep, lies in the bed of his coffin...
...feel of a sellout album. The instrumental work is impressive, especially the wailing guitars of "Killed by an Angel" and "One," but it is Enigk's pleasantly haunting voice that sets The Rising Tide apart from other alternative releases. At times screeching and whiny and at others plaintive and hollow, Enigk's mesmerizing sound captures an impressive range of emotions. "Rain Song" stands out as a work of simple beauty that will appeal even to those not enamored with the band's power-trio sound, while "Faces in Disguise" demonstrates the band's ability to tone things down without losing...
...While George W.'s compassionate conservatism puts purpose back into prosperity and Gore's hollow populism fights the powerful forces, take care to listen to the call of Nader, whose politics, however incomplete, speak truth to power in a way Gore and Bush cannot...