Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's peacekeepers will remain on duty for only a year, American officials say. But the long-term threat to Bosnia's future will go beyond skirmishes with rebel Serbs and perhaps take firm shape only when the year is up. Even if elections are carried out as prescribed, the central government may never become a functioning administration that can earn citizens' loyalty. Under the agreement, both entities in the new state are permitted to establish parallel links with neighboring countries. That means the Serbs with Serbia and the Croats with Croatia. The biggest worry for Bosniacs is that those...
...flung expeditions. Life has occupied the planet for nearly 4 billion of its 4.5 billion years. But until about 600 million years ago, there were no organisms more complex than bacteria, multicelled algae and single-celled plankton. The first hint of biological ferment was a plethora of mysterious palm-shape, frondlike creatures that vanished as inexplicably as they appeared. Then, 543 million years ago, in the early Cambrian, within the span of no more than 10 million years, creatures with teeth and tentacles and claws and jaws materialized with the suddenness of apparitions. In a burst of creativity like nothing...
...researchers are now convinced, lies in the Vendian, the geological period that immediately preceded it. But because of the frustrating gap in the fossil record, efforts to explore this critical time interval have been hampered. For this reason, no one knows quite what to make of the singular frond-shape organisms that appeared tens of millions of years before the beginning of the Cambrian, then seemingly died out. Are these puzzling life-forms - which Yale University paleobiologist Adolf Seilacher dubbed the "vendobionts" - linked somehow to the creatures that appeared later on, or do they represent a totally separate chapter...
Smith, of course, could not keep pure of all such influences, and his missteps are on display at the exhibit as well. While billed as "explorations of form, color, shape and mass," his paintings and small assemblages convey little original thought. "Relief with Bones" is a particular disaster-- constructed of chicken bones, a shoebox lid, and canvas, this mess of gouache and watercolor artlessly melds the elemental primitivism of Jean DuBuffet with the cool detachment of pop artists. Although occasionally suggesting the powerful brushwork of a Kline, Smith's other paintings pale in comparison with the power of his sculpture...
This past week essentially provided an opportunity for ECAC teams to explore opponents outside the friendly confines of their own league, with the exception of two games besides last night's. Colgate finally began to get into its much-hyped-about shape, bombing RPI 9-4 at home on Saturday...