Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Astronomers are used to dealing in extremes, but no one had ever discovered anything like this before: a pair of superdense stars a mere 80,000 miles apart, locked in a gravitational embrace, one orbiting the other every 11 1/2 minutes and spewing X rays at a temperature of 50 million degrees Fahrenheit. Says Nicholas White of the European Space Agency's EXOSAT observatory in Darmstadt, West Germany: "What we've got is a system you could fit between the earth and the moon that generates 100,000 times more luminosity than...
...idea that landscapes like this are fantasies, mere projections of psychosis on the mundane, is wrong and does no justice to Van Gogh's exquisite sense of reality. The matter is more complicated than that. It is true that Van Gogh applied the formal system he preferred to the Provencal landscape: the rapid, shifting notation of dots, speckles and slashes in the drawings, with the white paper burning like noon light behind the sepia ink; the characteristic spirals of the paintbrush, which link back to the decorative line work of Edo Japanese screens and point forward to the whiplash rhythms...
THEN IT CAME TO ME that Harvard itself had built a house for even less, as recently as 1983. So I called the firm that had brought in Harvard Yard's gingerbread guardhouse for a mere $25,000--J.W. Rockbottom & Sons. I got old J.W. himself...
...Mantle teetered for years on the edge of a serious drinking problem, and his legendary late nights were not a mere innocent exuberance of youth," says Gould...
...wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role...