Word: kali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflict with the elements -man harnesses nature, tames the wilderness and conquers space. The Eastern mode, on the contrary, is to create a balance with nature and to identify even with nature's terrible aspects. India's mother goddess, giver of life, is also black and bloody Kali, the bringer of death and destruction. The West divides good and evil, and thinks evil can be destroyed-St. George killing the dragon, the Virgin crushing the serpent beneath her heel. The Hindus revere the serpent as the symbol of all nature, good and vile together. Asians generally are capable...
...results were as confused and kaleidoscopic as the process itself. Across from the lavish Hotel Indonesia, a sign showing a jowly Uncle Sam with a dagger at his throat had quietly disappeared. "It was the wind," explained grinning Indonesians. Near the reeking kali-kali (canals) off Merdeka Square, Moslem youth groups in straw hats drilled where young Communists once sang their favorite anthem: America, Satan of the World. Through the capital's dusty, palm-studded streets, army patrols quietly rounded up minor Red officials and led them off to secluded firing squads. And on walls, fences and curbstones blazed...
...possible some of them might have been pushed off a 40-story building. When De Kooning discovered Marilyn Monroe as a subject in the mid-1950s, and long before pop artists cottoned to her contours, he painted her as half Lilith, half maneater, with a pneumatic maw worthy of Kali...
Geologists know that the Bad Nauheim brine gets its salt from the thick Kali and Zechstein deposits 40 miles away, so Dombrowski next looked for bacteria in the salt itself. Guarding carefully against contamination by modern bacteria, he dissolved samples of Zechstein salt in sterilized nutrient broth. After a few days, he examined the broth, found it to be teeming with lively bacteria...