Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tour," remarks Art Historian Jacques Thuillier. "There was never a great painter who created a narrower universe." He painted no landscapes. no buildings, no ruins, and hardly any animals beyond St. Peter's rooster and a fly perched on a blind beggar's hurdy-gurdy; the sole object of his scrutiny was man and woman and their intimate possessions - the texture and sheen of velvet, the transparency of a glass, or (as in the Wrightsman Magdalen) the exact difference in the highlights that a tallow flame creates on the bone of a skull and on the grayed...
ERTS's infra-red scanners can perform more subtle detective work, since every object, living or inanimate, emits or reflects the various wave lengths of infra-red light with a different intensity. Chlorophyll, for instance, a key chemical involved in the production of oxygen by green plants, has a very distinctive infra-red "fingerprint." Thus, by the color variations in photos, future ERTS satellites could quickly detect any large-and possibly dangerous -change in the chlorophyll content of ocean plankton, a principal source of the world's oxygen supply. By similar "fingerprinting," ERTS and its successors could warn...
...consideration is that a body be buried after use," says Bishop John Ward of Los Angeles. "Whether or not a person donates his organs or, indeed, his entire body to science is, of course, a very personal matter in which we would not want to interfere." Nor do undertakers object to the trend. Many are retained by medical schools to store or transport bodies, and have enough traditional patrons to keep them busy...
Whether as a threat or a promise ?or as an object lesson?occultism is a phenomenon with which a growing number of churchmen realize that they must come to terms. One who sees it from a particularly revealing angle is the Rev. Festo Kivengere, an Anglican evangelist in Uganda who has been on a speaking tour of the U.S. Kivengere, who was raised as an animist, discerns in occultism "a trend toward the kind of religion that most of my people were converted from...
Laser-directed bombs usually require the coordination of at least two aircraft: one circles above and trains a pencil-thin beam of laser light on the target, while the other drops its bombs in the general direction of the object. Responding to infra-red sensors mounted in their noses, the bombs ride the beam's reflections in a long glide pattern to the target. Sometimes they strike within a 5-ft. radius of the bull...