Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over time, the paintings have had to deal with a variety of obstacles--in addition to theft--that most artists never encounter. Tom shows a slide of one painting, its only remnant clinging to the bottom bolt--a passing truck had crushed...
...newly discovered stars are among the more bizarre inhabitants of the celestial zoo. According to White and his colleagues, one member of the strange duo is a neutron star -- the burned-out remnant of a large star that has collapsed under its own gravity and then exploded, leaving behind a spinning, tightly packed ball of neutrons. Incredible as it seems, that ball, which is more massive than the sun, is only ten miles or so in diameter and is so dense that a cubic inch would weigh 100 billion tons on earth. Its partner in the celestial dance...
Journalists and civil libertarians have long decried the provisions under which Lara was detained as a remnant of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, a piece of McCarthy-era legislation that permits the expulsion of visitors on the basis of their ideas as well as their actions. It also allows the Government to keep to itself the reasons for its action in such cases. Complains Columbia President Michael Sovern: "What you've got is a statute that permits the U.S. Government to keep people out of the country without telling them or anyone else the offense they are alleged to have...
...miles of ocean with magnetometers, devices that detect irregularities in the earth's magnetic field--anomalies caused by, among other things, iron cannons, armor or anchors. They used side-scan and sub-bottom sonar and even commissioned an aerial survey, but the search did not yield a verifiable Atocha remnant. Says Fay Feild, an engineer and consultant to Treasure Salvors, who designed a special magnetometer for Fisher: "With a magnetometer, even in a limited area, only one in 100 'hits' has anything to do with a wreck. With a side- scanner, it's one in a million...
...answer in each case is the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, which unfolds where it started, within the ivy-covered remnant walls of a onetime Chautauqua dome in the folksy college town of Ashland (pop. 15,000). The first season, three performances, was accompanied by boxing matches to defray costs. The fights lost money. The theater made a profit. Today the Ashland operation, revered on the West Coast but largely unknown elsewhere, has an annual budget of $5.5 million and sells more than 90% of capacity...