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...major problem that has been solved is the stagnation and oxygen depletion of a layer of slat water in the river that lies beneath a layer of lighter fresh water. A $700,000 system of six bubblers installed three years ago by the MDC and the Environmental Protection Agency now pumps air into the deepest part of the basin to mix and oxygenate the water, Ferullo said...
This literacy-a sense of the thickness of art's layer over an insufficiently interpreted world, a knowledge of what alternative images it contains-is part of Kitaj's essential subject matter. It explains his passion for homage, his contempt for theories of progress in art and his dislike of spontaneity. It would be hard to find anyone intelligent today who believes art still moves from lower states to higher, but ten years ago, Kitaj was much scorned in some circles for not believing it and saying he did not. "In the terms of my own life...
...false summit after another. Oh, another couple of hundred yards, oh, another 40 yards, oh (giggle), another quarter-mile. The real top is obvious; there are lots of people up there eating lunch. The wind picks up a little, cooling the sweat on our backs, and we add a layer or two. And when we get up there, we are pretty quiet, part tired, and part too busy with all the looking around in awe that occupies one on the tops of mountains. Mt. Jefferson, perched between Mt. Adams and Mt. Washington on top of the Northeast. There's nothing...
...stanch the flow, but the ancient pipes and hard-to-find shutoffs thwarted their efforts till nearly 11 p.m. When they finally fixed the leak, the Yard drained quickly and subsequent inspections revealed only minor damage to building basements and underground library stacks. By early morning, only a layer of mud was left as proof of the nighttime flood...
...familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song. The most unstable interval in music, the tritone, stalks the cycle relentlessly, a musical metaphor for the dissolution and decay that mark Montale's poetry...