Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bulk of Farndon's more than 300 oils study the contrast of large dark masses comprised of forest greens, moving to navy blue and brown-black with lighter earth- and autumnal tones. In his most important works, such as Mending the Nets, Farndon displays his receptivity to the emptiness of shadow and the seeming endless depth of murky harbor water. His preoccupation with water runs throughout his work and serves as a motif he returns to again and again through his life...
...jostle the 737 sufficiently to contribute to the latter's plunge, it would be a first. While 727s were the lead craft in seven of the 52 wake-vortex encounters documented by the NTSB from 1983 through 1993, all of those incidents -- some merely unsettling, some disastrous -- involved much lighter trailing aircraft...
Very early on in All the Trouble in the World (Grove/Atlantic; 340 pages; $22), P.J. O'Rourke's look at "the lighter side" of overpopulation, famine, ecological disaster and other global environmental woes, the reader begins to wonder whether somewhere between writing Republican Party Reptile and this latest effort the author suffered a stroke. Left intact are O'Rourke's accustomed descriptive flair and facility for throwaway lines -- " 'dying like flies' is not a simile you'd use in Somalia. The flies wax prosperous and lead full lives." Gone, however, is any faculty for building an argument...
...event also has its lighter moments, debaters said. Before the actual competition started, participants held an informal speech competition in which speakers had to lie their way out of hypothetical dilemmas...
...Goldenson has also led efforts to apply space technology to make wheelchairs lighter and convince businesses to reserve parking spaces for the handicapped...