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...history were globefish-gutted, puffed, dried, and filled with live fireflies. The lanterns that pleased Hirohito's grandfather, and have been a delight ever since, are more complex. They are designed to transform candlelight into globes of muted color. Each one requires up to 120 bamboo strips, no thicker than toothpicks, which are bound together with silk threads to make a collapsible frame. The frame is covered with eight sections of silk or oiled paper, painted with traditional figures. Gluing the shell to the frame is the hardest part of the job and is done mainly in the spring...
...projects," he says. "We can think of the possibilities of drying a warm-blooded animal like a dog, rehydrating it and then expect it to live." The main problem, as Luyet sees it, is mechanical. It is not yet possible to freeze objects thicker than 1/100th of an inch into suspended animation...
...debate. For the next 36 hours and 20 minutes-with but one 63-minute break-Tories and Socialists battled one another across the dividing aisle. When it was all over and the last sleepy M.P. had dragged himself home to bed, Hansard, the official House of Commons record, was thicker by 250,000 words...
...Gloom settled thicker in the Loop. NBC axed 15 minutes off another "Chicago" TV show, the intelligent fantasy...
Golfer de Wit also noticed some other differences in the way the game is played at home and abroad. "The grass was higher, much thicker than it is in Holland. I found you have to hit the ball over there. Over here we stroke the ball and the ball rolls. Here we concentrate on teaching people how to swing. In America they concentrate on the hitting. I saw one guy go almost off his feet. If we see somebody do that here...