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...Corot, Pont-des-Arts, circa 1868. Or the vigorous, limpid Still Life with Bouquet, 1871 , whose tones of gold, amber and black sum up his affinities with Impressionism - light caress ing every surface, revealing each nu ance of substance from the crackly parchment of the Japanese fan to the humid softness of the bouquet...
...would go over to tell him, picking my way carefully among squealing children and slippery spots. It was impossible to go at more than a snail's pace, because the floors were always wet and a bit slimy, made of smooth red tile. The walls sweated from the humid air, and on crowded days you couldn't even see from one end of the pool to the other for all the steam...
...looked as if Wilson might have to wait a long time to use those special glasses. In what turned out to be an expensive economy measure, Batavia's builders had decided not to air-condition the main tunnel of the $250 million machine. As a result, warm, humid air seeped into the tunnel last summer, and water condensed inside the coils of the 1,000 giant magnets that bend and focus the atom smasher's proton "bullets" as they race around this circular race track at speeds close to that of light. Shorted out by the moisture, some...
According to Mark, racism is "a belief that skin colors really are important." His assertion, as it stands, is meaningless. Are doctors who advise sickle-cell anemia tests to more black patients than white patients racist? Are geneticists who advise light-skinned people to wear protective clothing in warm, humid climates racist? Are historians who point to the exploitation and oppression of blacks, Indians and Chicanos racist? Should they deny reality? Should they suggest that blacks were targets of discrimination on a geographical basis, a metaphysical basis, a divine command? Such questions make Mark's definition look ridiculous, but, alas...
...problems, they will probably center on the weather. "It's different from California, where we could use that beautiful climate most of the year," says Roy Disney, Walt's brother, who is board chairman of Walt Disney Productions. During summer, for example, central Florida is usually hot, humid and subject to daily thunderstorms. The odds are, however, that Disney luck will prevail. "The real strength of our company," said Brother Roy two years ago, "has been that Walt and the staff he built always seemed to be able to reach out and touch the heart of the public...