Word: scrapingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather a heavy load for small clay objects to carry, but one of the virtues of Price's work is that it never seems pompous and only rarely trivial. Some of the time, it mocks itself. Certain Prices look like exquisitely glazed versions of stuff you would want to scrape off your boot. And what about Wart Cup, 1968, for a title? One can't claim too much for his cups, which is a relief in a culture that tends to claim far too much for its paintings, but the whole show in Minneapolis is infused with an educated sense...
...eventually the integrity of the structures. The antidote used so far has been to scrub the facades. Since 1986 the Archaeological Survey of India has spent the six-month dry season sprucing up Angkor Wat. A team of 15 Indian specialists supervises more than 300 unskilled Cambodian workers, who scrape the fragile sandstone carvings with brushes and chemicals...
When he was nine, his father took him to see Star Wars. Like many thousands of youngsters, he went back as often as he could scrape up the money for another ticket. But while other kids fantasized about becoming Luke Skywalker or Princess Leia, Singleton's hero was director George Lucas. He soon began drawing scenes on sheets of paper and flipping the pages to create crudely animated "movies." During his senior year in high school, inspired by an English teacher with a passion for good writing, he decided on an alternate route to filmmaking: screenwriting. He enrolled...
...Braille. Because the electromagnetic force applied by the tip is so small, an AFM can delicately probe a wide range of surfaces, including the membranes of living cells. Even more astounding, by applying slightly more pressure, scientists can use an AFM tip as a dissecting tool that lets them scrape off the top of cells without destroying their interior structures. Scientists have used an AFM to detail the biochemical cascade that results in blood clotting; to examine the atomic structure of seashells; and to uncover the tiny communication channels that link one cell to another. "We're looking at scales...
...soil is not as fertile in Bakarevo, a settlement 900 miles to the north on the Volga River, near the city of Yaroslavl. In fact, Venyamin, who prefers not to give his last name, cannot scrape a living out of his small landholding. He works as a ship chandler to support his wife Antonina, her mother and two young sons. They also have damp earthen cellars beneath their wooden cottage to store their winter stash: 15 sacks of potatoes, two barrels of salted cabbage, heaps of onions and carrots, five huge jars of pickles and 40 quarts of fruit preserves...