Word: loomings
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Like stark sentinels, they loom high above the ocean waters, seeming in storm and mist to have been there nearly as long as the sea. They are the thousands of offshore oil platforms that dot the continental shelf of North America. They are the hostile homes of the offshore oil workers, a very tough and particular breed of men. Houston Bureau Chief Leo Janos went to live among them for a time on a platform off the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. His report...
...White House has discovered Congress," observes one presidential aide, "and it is going to be romanced to death." The attempt is crucial, considering the taut and complex political climate and the stern demands that Nixon is making upon the new Congress. At the moment, serious obstacles loom for most of the major proposals Nixon is trying to push through the showdown session. They include...
...such semantic eels. The big conceptual problem has been to come up with a model, or analogue, that will explain the dynamics of learning and memory. Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise. The electronic computer at first seems promising. Unhappily, though the brain generates and can be prodded by electrical impulses, the most sophisticated cybernetic device is still a primitive instrument when compared with the human brain...
...like a turnabout in Administration policy toward the South: 1) the Supreme Court had ruled last October that there could be no more stalling on school desegregation, so the Justice Department had to get tough; 2) the sooner desegregation could be completed, the less likely it would be to loom large as a 1972 presidential election issue, and 3) the Administration needed to increase its appeal in large metropolitan areas outside the South -and to moderates within the region...
...tapestries of Poland's Magdalena Abakanowicz have the look of untanned animal hides. The loose, three-dimensional web of New Yorker Sherri Smith's Volcano no. 10 hangs clear of the wall so it can be seen from either side. Paris-based Nebraskan Sheila Hicks abandoned the loom altogether to create her modular The Principal Wife, eight individual units that hang from a rod and can be added to indefinitely...