Word: origin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Flower Power on the Plains" [Nov. 26], you claim that sunflower oil contains less cholesterol than oils made from corn or soybeans. The truth is, there's no cholesterol in any of these oils, naturally. Cholesterol occurs only in foods of animal origin...
American folk art, however humble its origin, is soaring in value as well-crafted objects like pewter pots, duck decoys, quilts and scrimshaw (erotic examples in particular) become ever scarcer. Photographs are commanding fine arts prices; an original print of Ansel Adams' Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico sold last week for a record $22,000. "We can see the day when a single photograph will fetch $100,000," says Philippe Garner, a Sotheby's photographic expert. Almost any object from the once scorned 19th century now seems as precious as Suez Canal Co. stock was in its heyday. Twenty...
...Nazis herded countless thousands of homosexuals into concentration camps. They were regarded as degenerates, polluting the purity of Aryan blood. That is the documentary origin of this gritty, powerful and compassionate drama...
...facing permanent impotence resulting from surgery for cancers in the pelvic region, diabetes, spinal cord injuries or other physical causes-and for those whose problem is psychological in origin and is not helped by therapy-two kinds of penile implants are available. In one operation, which takes about an hour, an incision is made in the penis or just behind the scrotum and a semirigid silicone rod is inserted into each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan...
...publication of Darwin's Origin of Species not only changed the way Victorians thought, it altered the way they saw. Animals became part of the great chain of being and illustrators freshened their efforts to give birds and mammals moral characteristics. Perhaps the best and, ironically, the most obscure was Ernest Griset, whose influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy...