Word: slab
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...travel guidebooks to megalithic monuments. The Megalithic European (Element; 496 pages) is his second book of big stones, a companion to The Modern Antiquarian, in which he chronicled the remnants of neolithic Britain. Published in 1998, it sold more than 30,000 copies?not bad for a 2.3 - kg slab of a book with a $50 price tag. Like its predecessor, The Megalithic European is an immensely practical - as long as it's not in your rucksack - gazetteer of more than 300 sites stretching from northern Denmark to Malta, from Crete to Portugal. Entries are sprinkled with 800 photographs, copious...
FLAT SCREENS A 50-in. slab of television is the next big thing, but not yet easily affordable. When should you get yours...
...side effects of conceptual art has been to make the museum-going experience unprecedentedly uncomfortable. As I walked into the gallery the first thing I saw was “Wave,” a 1964 sculpture by the artist Hans Haacke. The piece consisted of a thin rectangular slab, almost five feet long and a little less than a foot high, which was suspended from the ceiling by two thin cables. The slab was hollow and half full of water, and as its name implies, you can pull one end and let go to make it rock back...
...like this you really get a good one.” It was the gallery guard, and before I could really tell what was happening she pulled Wave way back, let it go, and whoosh, a hurricane-force wave crashed around inside the clear plastic slab. Much more impressive...
...manager of John F. Kerry’s cookie store, Sarah Leah Chase ’79 remembers slicing her hand while chopping a rock-hard, frozen slab of butter back in the days before either she or Kerry, now a Mass. senator and Democratic presidential candidate, were popular icons...