Word: instrumentality
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...When Craze spins, it's art--he twists notes in the air the way Jackson Pollock used to drip paint on a canvas. Now, at the London contest, he's adding something else that's fresh: he's playing the needle on one of his turntables like a percussive instrument, picking it up softly and dropping it--hard--on the record. An announcer delivers the judges' decision...
...then again, it could have been the other way around, argues MacPhee, who believes disease offers a more credible instrument of decline. He suspects that some disease-causing microbe--one to which New World organisms lacked resistance--tagged along with the Stone Age hunters who first ventured into the New World. Once again this pathogen (which could have been carried by dogs or vermin) need not have killed every single animal to have set the wheels of extinction in motion. During the late 19th century in Africa, for example, native antelope, wildebeests and other ungulates were decimated by rinderpest...
...priest lays his curse on the fairest joys." His relation to Christian belief was both saturated in the imagery of the Bible and extremely nondoctrinal. He was trained as an engraver, not a "high" artist, which meant that a certain resentment of official art and its newly founded instrument, the Royal Academy, was built into him. Like many other such craftsmen at the time, he was possibly a Mason. Certainly he felt like an outsider, and was fascinated by the ideas of the 16th century alchemist Paracelsus, the mystic Jakob Bohme and his contemporary, Emanuel Swedenborg...
...McVeigh, saying, "As the 12 jurors believe the verdict (against McVeigh) is justified under all circumstances and executed their moral judgment as a conscience of the community, whatever in time may be discovered about the possible involvement of others does not change the fact that Timothy McVeigh was the instrument of death and destruction...
...million da Vinci robot, made by Intuitive Surgical, is a modern twist on an older technique known as "keyhole" surgery, in which surgeons use elongated chopstick-like tools teamed with a tiny camera to work inside the body. But "keyhole" surgery is counterintuitive: to move the instrument's tip to the left, the surgeon has to push the handle to the right - and vice versa. Despite the advantages to the patient, only about one-quarter of the 15 million operations performed each year in the U.S. are done this way. The da Vinci takes the tools out of the surgeon...