Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rubens never forgot the lesson of Venetian art: with every object, from a wineglass to a woman's belly, brought to its fullest luster as substance, "luxury" meant completeness of being. There is something quite transcendental about Rubens' incessant delight in the material world. Every dimple or blush on the skin of Helene Fourment, the child wife of his old age (she was 16, he 53, when they were married in 1630), is both the record of desire and a proclamation of God's generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large...
...fact-are you ready for this?-Guccione worries about all the hard-core pornography around. He favors licensing movie theaters like bars. If their marquees are too vulgar or the theaters admit children to X-rated movies, their licenses could be revoked. Nor would he object to legislation that skin magazines could be displayed only at adult height and in such a way that anyone could make a 360° visual sweep of a shop and not be assaulted by nude-magazine covers. He obviously fears any movement that would put his kind of magazine back under the counter. Whatever...
...born in the womblike gas clouds of interstellar space (TIME cover, Dec. 27). Now, they may have a chance to observe a delivery. Scientists from the University of Arizona and NASA'S Ames Research Center at Mountain View, Calif., announced last week that they have identified a discshaped object in the constellation Cygnus that is not only an evolving star, but could well be a sun in the process of forming its own planets. Their discovery could furnish scientists with an opportunity to study planetary formation and figure out how the sun's children-including earth itself-developed...
...bone, wood and charcoal from ancient sites have long employed a technique called carbon-14 dating. This dating game has its drawbacks: it requires the destruction of a sizable portion of the sample and cannot, without costly and time-consuming treatment, determine the age of any object more than about 40,000 years old. But a new method promises to overcome both obstacles. A team of researchers from the University of Rochester, the University of Toronto and General lonex Corp. of Ipswich, Mass., is developing a way of dating objects that not only uses much smaller samples, but may also...
...method does not do away with the need to measure carbon 14, a radioactive atom that accumulates in all organisms while they live and decays at a known rate once they die. But it measures it in a different way. Current dating methods determine the age of an object indirectly, by measuring its carbon-14 radioactivity. The new technique being developed by Professor Harry Gove of Rochester and his fellow researchers measures the amount of carbon 14 directly. The scientists place a sample of the object to be evaluated in Rochester's tandem Van de Graaff particle accelerator...