Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HEAVY black smoke of burning incense pours out of the door to a front room at 46 Concord Avenue on Saturday nights at 7, when the weekly Process Sabbath Assembly, their public religious service, begins. Inside the room, the pale skin of a few babies shows up sharply in the candle-light against the black clothing of the women who hold them. Over and over, the worshippers sitting on cushions around the floor sing to the accompaniment of three guitars a hymn that stresses the unity of the members of the Church. At one end of the room, hung...
...York. It may tend to break down the walls of the museum- I hope." Four weeks ago, the first show at Hammarskjold Plaza opened with seven giant constructions by Alexander Liberman. It was an intelligent choice: Liberman's buoyant sculptures, with their red-lacquered steel surfaces laid like skin over space, changed the street into a visual event...
...cylinder until it is halted and returned to balance by the serene oblong that blocks its path. Even in the most abstract of Liberman's new works like Above, 1970, there is a buoyancy that invites physical response: the interlocking red cylinders, with their infoldings of metal skin and turning space, demand to be navigated by the eye as imperiously as a peach demands fondling. Robert Hughes
...mental model of the world. It is his model of the world that he experiences.... I live in my mental model of the world and my mental model lives in me." The mental model is one of the four models he describes. World one is inside his skin, world two is the mental model, world three is what he knows only a little about, and world four is what he knows nothing about. Education is making the mental model more and more accurate, workable, and reliable by becoming more acquainted with the worlds one knows nothing about...
...procedure is known as amniocentesis, from the Greek amnion (membrane) and kentesis (pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically, the doctors can identify nearly 70 different genetic disorders, most of them serious...