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...forward-looking sectors of the American art audience were waiting for pictures like these, sensuous and sharp, which spoke to the intuitions of transcendentalism in the up-to-the-minute terms of the machine age. For all their shimmer, they had a just-the-facts quality that proposed the romantic impulse as the highest form of lucidity. (That they could also be sexually voluptuous, something Weston claimed was unintended, did not hurt.) What he had hit upon, of course, was how high definition and distortions of scale could make objects more uncanny even as it made them more palpable...
...oversees a staff of 18. Among them, they turn out pasta and homemade breads twice a day, as well as thin, crackling raspberry and orange tarts. Sooner or later all try their hand at the subtle and restrained garnishes created by Robuchon. He tends to favor a pointillist shimmer of color, sometimes achieved with tiny droplets of tomato sauce dotted from a knife point to rim a sauce of grass-green pureed spinach or by flecks of herbs and vegetables added to a terrine of rabbit set in a pale, jewel-like aspic. Wielding a tiny round cutter that...
With its black frame, red Naugahyde base and transparent plastic panels, it looks like a cross between a recreation-room bar and an aquarium. Its blue- tinted towers, washed by 200 gallons of liquid coolant, bubble and shimmer / like over-heated Lava Lites. Its nickname is "Bubbles," and it bears little resemblance to the computers that most Americans have seen. But the $17.6 million Cray-2 is a computer -- a supercomputer at that -- and it is the fastest one in operation today...
...second or so. But the generating apparatus is so bulky that it could not be lifted into orbit; the laser stations would have to be placed on mountaintops to put them above the densest layers of the atmosphere. Even the thin upper layers would cause the beams to shimmer, however, owing to the same phenomenon that makes the light from stars appear to twinkle. The excimer laser beams would have to be bounced off mirrors in very high geosynchronous orbits over the equator, meaning that the mirrors would always hover over one spot on the earth's surface, to give...
NOEL COWARD'S Design for Living, as it is now performed by the Huntington Theater Company, shines and glistens, amuses and entertains; it is an enjoyable evening of theater. But ironically, it lacks the shimmer of sophistication which is both the subject and the essence of the play...