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...freeze is trickier. Fill a large bowl with vanilla ice cream. Then take a cup and fill it one-third of the way with root beer. Add the ice cream slowly to the root beer, stirring as you go, until you get a thick, rich, root beer-flavored freeze...
...largest work in the show, River of the Moon, 1992, consists of a tangle of thick lead pipes connected to what seems to be a pumping station. These entrails snake up the museum ramp, apparently disappearing into the walls or the floor and re-emerging; they are connected to black boxes through whose glass tops a puddle of mercury can be seen welling up and vanishing as the pump switches on and off. It is obviously meant as a metaphor for the circulation of fluids inside the human body, with lunar input. But it is a ponderous affair and mechanically...
...irregularity and great negligence." Blore was a beacon of probity, but not of talent. His lack of it is why the east front of the palace -- the backdrop to the Changing of the Guard -- looks like a bank that got too big for its boots. He specialized in bland, thick architectural effects coupled with the sort of mingy "good taste" decoration later imitated in Edwardian hotels...
...falling into place after Marie-Agnes Courty, a geologist with the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, painstakingly examined and sorted the soil samples from the roofs of the abandoned buildings under a binocular microscope. She identified a thin veil of volcanic ash, one quarter of an inch thick, underneath 8 to 20 inches of silt. The layers showed no evidence of having been disturbed by earthworms and also showed patterns characteristic of soil that has settled after a dust storm. It looked like a volcano had erupted, perhaps in nearby Turkey, and a long drought had followed...
...Damme's thick accent is thought to be one of the reasons he has yet to become a major star. The Cajun gambit was last played in "Universal Soldier" to some box office success, but Van Damme can't fall back on this forever...