Word: tes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychology of the Big Bang to the experience of birth. But he is unassailable on subjects of pure science: the awesome structure of a grain of salt; the strange, hospitable atmosphere of Titan, a moon of Saturn. Sagan is at his wittiest when he attacks his bêtes noires: the ideas of Catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky. Scientists usually lapse into tantrums when they discuss Velikovsky's belief in Venus as the cause of Old Testament miracles and plagues. Sagan, in a chapter worth the price of the book, refutes the claim so calmly and effectively that the theory, like...
...grilled, or divided into what some call the ''odd parts." such as brains, sweetbreads and soup bones. Indeed, le petit veau is a centerpiece of all the great cuisines save the Chinese. The book's most notable contribution may be a simplified recipe for côtes de veau Orloff, that unusually hard-to-prepare confection of glazed chops with pureed onions and mushrooms that was one of czarist Russia's more admirable innovations...
...this year's Burgundies will not be available until early 1980 for whites and early 1981 for reds. They will be scarce, but wines from Beaujolais and the Côtes du Rhône, Burgundy's neighbors to the south, have enjoyed abundant harvests. As a result, the 1978 nouveaux are not only better than last year's but often cheaper." And there is good news from Bordeaux, which also had an excellent year. Growers there expect a price rise of only 4% for reds and 10% for whites, which will make Bordeaux a good value...
...treatise comes in the middle of a boom: photographs now experience the same kind of inflation and distortion paintings did in the 1960s. Once the ignored art, photography now stands robed in puffery and armored with analysis; like painting, it has acquired its cast of heroes and poètes maudits. But not enough has been written on how photography acts on the real world: how it has altered our perceptions, our social relationships, our sense of reality. Such questions are fundamental. They haunt photographic criticism. But they seldom materialize as issues, despite the obvious fact that photography...
...18th century Londoners who visited Vauxhall Gardens to goggle at fireworks and take in country music; and of the Parisians who in 1817 rode the original shoot-the-chute (it was called saut du Niagara) or gasped at balloon ascents at Ruggieri's fêtes champêtres. Some parkgoers today recall grandparents' tales of the great 1893 Chicago Exposition, which introduced the Ferris wheel; their parents may have courted at Coney Island...