Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlantic Ocean, and down through its center, keeping equidistant between the two continents, runs the mid-Atlantic ridge, where the ocean floor is still cracking and separating. In highly volcanic Iceland, where the ridge comes to the surface, is a belt of brand-new land made of basaltic lava that the rising rock current has brought up from deep in the earth...
...Cannon seems considerate, practical, matter-of-fact, and then his nerves start to sing like high-tension wires. The playgoer senses that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater...
...week's end, however, the shocks eased-and at that there was even some disappointment, reflected by the housewife who complained: "All that scare and trouble, and no lava." The truth is that many Sao Jorgeans were hoping to share the fate of the victims of a 1957 volcanic eruption which poured ash over the neighboring island of Faial. The U.S. Congress passed Public Law 85-892 providing 1,500 special nonquota immigrant visas for destitute Faialeans, and they sailed off happily to live...
Plaster-packer Segal, whose works recall Pompeian people petrified in lava, did a cast of Scull, and James Rosenquist did a family portrait. In it, nothing shows of Scull but his legs and feet, next to a realistic taxicab with open door, and inside the cab, an upside-down closeup of Ethel being kissed on the nose by one of her children. "Not quite the Mona Lisa," says Scull...
...level plains on the earth are nearly all caused by erosion, a phenomenon that requires an atmosphere and there fore does not exist on the moon. The flat-looking lunar seas may turn out to be thickly covered with steep-sided pits, or with jagged plates of lava like many of the earth's lava flows, or with fragile rock froth unlike anything that exists on earth...