Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faddists. Their butter and soap come from the store. They worked the land, taught country school, and welcomed the automobile, hybrid corn and television. And what they had at any moment was always enough. The nearest interstate highway (30 miles) or urban shopping complex (80 miles) did not lure them away. They stayed-part of the enduring underpinning for the man on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Alamos Scientific Laboratory is pressing ahead on "hot rock" technology. This involves drilling down to hot rock, pumping in water and drawing out the resulting steam through a second hole. There are technical problems, chief among them the necessity for deep (16,400 ft.) drilling. But the lure is that electricity from some geothermal sources can be produced for less than 10 mills per kilowatt hour-easily competitive with oil, coal or nuclear plants...
...course the lure of an exclusive, intimate photograph is one few editors can resist. But its use is as irresponsible journalistically as running handouts from show-business promoters without further investigation...
...gloire of the Empire. Where did the impulse toward exotic subjects, far travel and weird archaeologies, which would propel Delacroix to Algiers, begin? The show's thesis is that it was fixed in the French imagination by Napoleon's campaigns, especially by the invasion of Egypt. The lure of the crag and the mystery of the Pyramids were Napoleonic properties; and when Hubert Robert, in 1798, took a maypole dance in Arcady and transformed it into a ring of nymphs dancing around an eroded and indecently suggestive obelisk, he gave a pastoral form to the obsession which...
Locomotion Flashes. Lloyd believes that the mimicry is not always perfect; male fireflies-apparently noting slight differences in the flashes and suspecting female wiles-are not always taken in by the ruse. But the female Photuris generally manages to lure, capture and swallow at least one male out of every ten for whom she sets...