Word: layering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jellicles are assembled for a clan ritual. Annually, the revered elder, Old Deuteronomy, played like a benign biblical patriarch by Ken Page, chooses a deserving Jellicle to ascend "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside Layer," and be born again. While this serves as a passing and somewhat pretentious reminder of Eliot's New England transcendentalism, it does not provide the binding plot line that Nunn obviously hoped it would. As it is, the various Eliot cats come on doing star turns as if they were gifted gypsies eager to escape the anonymity...
...watch then muddy spikes. A few strides in front of the finish line, they kicked past Cornell's third man. When Rippy stopped after crossing the finish line. Cornell's man crashed into his back, unable to stop in the slippery letter. The upended Rippy became the bottom layer of a runner pile-up at the muddy finish line...
...grant from the Public Art Fund, a private foundation that aids civic art projects, began hauling rocks off the site, which is a landfill intended for a development of offices and apartments called Battery Park City. They laid down 700 cu. yds. of topsoil in a 2-in. layer and hand dug 285 furrows. Then they sowed 6 bu. of hard, red spring wheat donated by the North Dakota Wheat Commission. While office workers watched skeptically from nearby towers or paid lunchtime visits in three-piece suits, Denes and her friends weeded and watered...
...well as dried fruits and nuts. Just the crucial "conching," or blending process, of the chocolate can take up to 72 hours a batch, vs. about nine for assembly-line chocolates. Ordinary bonbons are sprayed with chocolate, but chic chocs are hand-dipped to build an even quarter-inch-layer thickness. Another reason for their high cost is that they contain no artificial preservatives and can be stocked only in small quantities. Of Corné Toison d'Or chocolates, possibly Belgium's finest. Founder Marcel Jo seph Corné says, "They are to be bitten gently with...
...discoverer was another expedition member, Leonard Krishtalka of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. Remarkably, three of the fossils, including a frontal bone, which is especially useful in assessing the possible shape of the skull, easily fit together. The age of the bones was determined from radioactive dating of a layer of cindery volcanic debris near the fossils. The bones, declared Clark, are the oldest clearly identifiable hominid, or humanlike, skull fragments ever found...