Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Composer Johnson admits he is fascinated with static art that concerns itself with its own innards. His next project is even more nonmusical, a novel called The Fish Aren't Biting. "It's about Nick and Eddie, who sit on a lake for 200 pages watching their bobbers and the fish aren't biting...
...cause of the flare-ups is the same as that which ignited racial violence across the U.S. in the seemingly progressive 1960s: rising civil rights expectations rubbing against static reality. Although the Navy has managed to recruit and promote more blacks, their representation remains dismal. Less than 1% of the officers and only 5.8% of the enlisted personnel are black. The blacks insist that they are assigned the most menial tasks and receive harder punishment than whites for equal offenses. Says Lonnie Brown: "Two men have to chip down a wall. The black man will be told...
...long been known that certain materials become electrified when they are rubbed together. That is, they lose or gain enough electrons to acquire a charge of static electricity. In this state, the materials will attract dust, hair and other lightweight fluff that happen to have an opposite charge. Now a British researcher has proposed that this phenomenon be used for a practical purpose: to help track down criminals...
Distinctive Field. The idea comes from Physicist Kurt Greenwood of the British textile industry's Shirley Institute in Manchester; he has been studying ways of reducing the static electricity built up by walking across carpets and other floor coverings. Greenwood knew that static electricity may be generated wherever a shoe rubs against a rug. His research had further established that the charge can persist for hours (particularly on some synthetic rugs in dry air) and that the shape of the charged area conforms to the shape of the sole and heel that created it. Those facts were of particular...
Greenwood strode purposefully across some synthetic carpeting and then rolled thousands of tiny plastic beads across it. Most of the beads could be easily blown off the rug. But some stuck in place, attracted by the local static charges that Greenwood had created by his walk. In fact, they formed clusters that looked like footprints wherever his heels and soles had come in contact with the carpet. Greenwood found that he could use the beads to detect his shoeprints up to a day after he had walked across...