Word: nimbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the years, some of Lindbergh's nimbus returned, partly because of his wartime service. Suffering from terminal cancer in 1973, he had himself flown to his home on Maui, where, with a strange and touching meticulousness, working from checklists, he designed his own tombstone, selected his shroud and supervised the digging of his grave--planning his own death as carefully as he had prepared for his other great flight, years earlier...
...Equivalents" (1929), provide a cushy counterpoint to such harder, clearly delineated concrete scenes. In a sense, Stieglitz taps into the age-old game of lying in the grass and picking out shapes in the sky, but with a deeper, vaguely solemn intent, as if to part the layers of nimbus and cumulus. His progression from works clearly grounded in the straightforward city to such abstraction in a sense reflects Stieglitz's attempts to broaden the "purpose" of photography...
...exceptional election when Americans are not lamenting "How did we come to this?" In 1964 Lyndon Johnson was a drawling Texas mess we inherited after ex-playboy J.F.K. was martyred into his golden nimbus. Johnson's opponent Barry Goldwater was a thermonuclear psychotic. So thought everyone to the left of Mayor Daley...
...great cloud rose up and covered the land, and the LORD saw that it was cumulo-nimbus. 2 All of the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 3 And the people heard the mighty call of the LORD, and carried their umbrellas as the LORD had commanded. 4 It rained upon the Earth for forty days and forty nights, and the people grew weary and cried to the LORD. 5 And the great prophet, whose name was Willard Scott, son of Bryant, spoke to the people. 6 And Willard the Prophet...
...think the latter is true. For one thing, the existence of the belt and cloud are natural consequences of established theories about the birth of the solar system. According to such theories, the early sun, formed from a cloud of gas and dust, was surrounded by a disk-shaped nimbus made up of the leftovers. The newborn star's heat drove smaller particles and gases, including water vapor, out from the center. The heavier, metal-rich rock left behind condensed into asteroids and the inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Much of the gas and light dust , farther...