Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stone townhouses whose pastel hues and intricate wrought-iron balconies testify to the wealth of those who built them. Side-walks peopled with men, women and children with backs straight and chins high like proud poodles--step lightly and with a certain disdain over cobblestones weathered by the centuries. Tree-lined boulevards whose flanks feature ornate fountains and sculptures carved by only the most famous of artisans...
...shrill glass-crunching scream when the teeth hit a pocket of "potch" (the gray waste near opal that runs in veins through the matrix). These drills are 4 ft. in diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely moving, infinitely better than anything built above ground. It has the same kind of weird beauty as the basement of Antoni Gaudi's Palau Guell. Here and there the lights pick up sparkles of quartz and waste opal crumbs embedded...
...cops and the tourists--have never devised a profitable means of detecting or extracting opals. It's handwork. You just stake a claim and start digging. Sounds simple, but the trouble is that none of the conventional geological spotting techniques apply. Opals don't react chemically with the stone matrix around them, and they don't leave the "traces" that gold or diamonds do. So it is a matter of digging and digging and digging. One spot is as good as another; the chances are always essentially the same. You can drill or pick into one spot on the rock...
...that and a gigantic talking clitoris should be enough for a short feature. But director Trey Parker (who wrote the film with Matt Stone and Pam Brady) figured he'd turn South Park into a wall-to-wall musical: 14 tunes, each evoking a familiar Broadway style. Cartman's perky Kyle's Mom's a Bitch echoes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, with choruses in fake Chinese, Dutch and French. Saddam could be an Arabic fiddler on the roof as he struts his seedy charm in I Can Change. Satan has a hilariously solemn ballad in the Disney-cartoon mode; like...
Professor of Sociology Peter V. Marsden and Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science Katharine Park represent the Faculty's social scientists, while Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Daniel Schrag and McKay Professor of Computer Science Stuart M. Shieber come from the natural science disciplines...