Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obtaining a nearly complete picture of the heavens. Last week, at a jubilant press conference in Washington, D.C., the multinational team of scientists and engineers responsible for the orbital telescope known as IRAS (for Infrared Astronomical Satellite) reported that they had succeeded beyond all expectations. As proof, they released some spectacular images, including a picture of the center of the Milky...
...demolished military headquarters, Israeli officials lamented the fact that a recently installed barricade of barrels and concrete "tiger's teeth" had failed to block the terrorist's truck. His success demonstrated, as if further proof were needed, how difficult it is to make any installation secure from a suicide attack (see box). The truck was said to have passed three unmanned Israeli roadblocks on the coastal highway that runs through Tyre, a Mediterranean port 50 miles south of Beirut. Sentries at two posts opened fire as the truck turned into the compound. David Illouz, one of the Israeli...
...American taste is so strong that not too many people sense what the due is. Everyone, of course, has heard of her late husband, Jackson Pollock, the mythic hero (one still reads such inflationary phrases) of abstract expressionism. But Krasner's painting is less well known, the proof being that she is only now getting her first full retrospective. Curated by Art Historian Barbara Rose, it opened late last month at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts: 152 paintings and drawings, the distillation of a 50-year working life. The show will travel to San Francisco and New York...
...early 20th century life. As she cannily observes, Darwin's legacy of doubt had weakened the moral underpinnings of Victorian and American society. But it had merely replaced religious faith with another dogma: the authority of Science. New believers turned to evidence of the world beyond the senses, "proof given by mediums who could communicate with the dead, make ectoplasm appear in darkened chambers and order inanimate objects to move at will. Katherine and Margaretta Fox of Arcadia, N.Y., were the superstars of the new movement, adolescents who could engender a rapping sound that issued, they said, from...
...subsequently wrote a statement to the Mt. Holyoke security services, and said she is prepared to make her complaint official should security fail to do anything. Though charging an officer with harassment would impose the burden of proof on Fox, she added. "I have the support of a lot of people, a lot of witnesses...