Word: layering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole vision down before it shreds apart in his mind. He starts with black, white and grey, which he regards as the colors of memory. When the first sketch is finished, it can be reworked indefinitely. Gradually the work takes on depth, as if it had been built up layer upon layer...
...drink with the family. There, unspoken, he finds sympathy and even love, but hurriedly offered in the passageway lest they all sbe discovered. Almost more than any recent writing about South Africa, the story gives a glimpse of the fundamental decency that Paton insists is there below the official layer of hate...
...Deal. Alfred's fossil hunting began when he was only 13, when he hiked to the abandoned Granton quarry in North Bergen, a mile from his home. Friends showed him the remains of ancient fish in a layer of fine-grained black shale and Alfred became a paleontologist on the spot. He spent most of his spare time in the old quarry. At night he pored over books on his new hobby. Soon he had an impressive fossil collection, mostly of primitive fish, such as coelacanths, which he took to the Museum of Natural History...
Chasing a fancy butterfly in the green wilds of Tanganyika 50 years ago. a German entomologist named Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself. When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...
Mystery Planet. Again, the U.S.S.R. did not disclose what observations, if any, the station will make when and if it gets to Venus. Since Venus is practically unknown inside its eternal layer of opaque clouds, very simple instruments should be able to gather important information about it. No one knows whether it has a magnetic field, or even whether it rotates on its axis. Its surface may be hot, dusty and stirred by terrific winds; it may be covered by a single deep ocean, perhaps made of petroleum instead of water. Any shred of information about the mystery planet will...