Word: sunkenness
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That simplicity disturbs those who want a more assertive memorial. The National Review, calling for a sculpture, sees the black granite, sunken walls and unalphabetical roster as a conspiracy to dishonor the dead. Carhart, a Purple Heart winner who lost out in the design competition (he proposed a statue of an officer ' offering a dead soldier heavenward) says the jury should : have consisted of war veterans, as if a beauty contest should be judged only by beauties...
Although the sunken Prowler is irretrievable, there is a record of its crash: every landing on the Nimitz is videotaped. The responsibility for the accident may finally fall on the pilot. Did White do something wrong? Probably, in Batzler's opinion, though he cautions: "We're not certain." From his perspective on the bridge, the approaching Prowler looked "not in the right position" for a landing, yet "there was no early indication he should have been waved off." There are signs that the plane's crew tried to escape during their fatal career down the flight deck...
...catalogue and the last drawing in the chronology, is part of a series of self-portraits from the last year of his life, where Picasso "confronts" the concept of his own death by depicting himself in various ways. Here, the head is that of a skull, with sunken cheeks and hollowed eyes. Tinterow explains that Picasso realize the importance of his self-portraits, keeping a colored version of this drawing in his sitting room during the last months of his life...
...Olin Frick told his friend John Casque to quit playing sandlot baseball and chasing girls, and instead help him search for sunken treasure. Gasque, then a physicist by profession, agreed-a decision he will never regret. Plumbing the waters around the West Indies, Gasque, 30, and Frick, 46, have discovered two 19th century ships, about $250,000 in gold, Ming dynasty china and pearls, and a seemingly worthless old wreck that may turn out to be the most precious find of all. The ship, discovered two years ago in 30 ft. of clear water 60 miles north of Haiti...
...years have passed since Admiral Heihachiro Togo, in the climactic encounter of the Russo-Japanese war, sank 20 of the 38 czarist warships that participated in the battle of the Sea of Japan. The echoes still reverberate. Spurred anew by an old tale that Czar Nicholas II's sunken fleet had been carrying a fortune in gold and other precious metals, a team of divers six months ago reached the 8,524-ton Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, in 314 ft. of water 5.5 miles off Tsushima Island, in an area between South Korea and Japan that lies well within...