Word: sunlight
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...always visually distinct, both extending millions of miles by the time the comet has moved close to the sun. They now know that the yellowish, often curved tail is composed of dust particles released during sublimation and swept away from the sun by the pressure of solar radiation. Sunlight reflecting off the tail produces the fiery effect. The second, bluish appendage is called the plasma or ion tail. It is formed when gases from the comet's nucleus become charged by solar radiation and then react with the solar wind, which is a constant stream of charged particles that emanate...
...first glance, a painting like Cake Window (Seven Cakes), 1970-76, might seem to reflect the familiar Warholian message of pop: uniformity within glut. But no. Its target is specificity, the peculiar qualities of fluorescent light (no less difficult to convey than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing...
Residents of the area, known as Mid Cambridge, had charged that a bridge spanning Broadway St. would reduce sunlight, create a traffic hazard, and in general, detract from the aesthetics of their densely crowded neighborhood...
...winter would have lasted much longer than it would through obscuring dust alone. Most plants and large animals that survived the blast, the fire and the lethal clouds of carbon monoxide would have succumbed to the climatic changes. But smaller creatures could have slipped into caves and hibernated until sunlight returned and they emerged to repopulate the earth...
Conversation is the only regular public entertainment in Casmalia. The town is a few dusty blocks set in the middle of spectacular golden foothills. The bright, bright sunlight is not flattering to Point Sal Road, the main street. Just off Point Sal stands a TV satellite dish nearly as big as its owners' trailer home. On the lot next door, a slack-bellied black horse eats greens. Early on a weekday afternoon, Casmalia is quiet but not silent: somewhere chickens crow, a toddler yelps, and Linda Ronstadt sings. "A lot of people don't like a town like this," says...