Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flowered tie, and a full beard. Lutin wore a pink shirt and a collarless blue sports jacket. An ascot was tied around his neck, and his greasy black thinning hair was stretched sparsely across his scalp, painfully trying to cover the bald spots until it could relax in a thick growth at the bottom of his neck. When I asked him what types of people came for horoscopes. he was exuberant. He had obviously been waiting for the question. His finger jabbed at the air, his mouth pouted open, and his large brown eyes looked over my shoulder at nothing...
...action painters began revolutionary work in the late '40's, reveling in the thick rich substance of paint itself. Pouring brown and grey paint. Pollock splashes a mood of autumn over the surface of the canvas. The paint holds the emotional energy of his action. Despite the element of chance inherent in Pollock's method of dripping paint, his gestures compose a completely personal style...
Other trophies of the Apollo 12 mission also preceded the astronauts to Houston. Some 80 Ibs. of lunar rock were delivered by midweek to eager scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Although a thick coat of clinging dust prevented immediate detailed observation, geologists could see that several of the rocks were igneous-formed out of molten material like lava. They were also of a lighter hue than the brownish gray Apollo 11 rocks from the Sea of Tranquility-and much larger. The biggest of these "grapefruits," as Conrad had called them, weighed as much as four pounds and were...
...abstruse origins. (The lowly burrowing gopher, for example, derives from gaufre, the French word for honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only a few black feathers. We called them DISGUSTING BIRDS, because the longer their flesh is cooked the more unpalatable it becomes." Sic transit dodo...
...piled up in Chicago, where more than 200 of their members are coming to trial for rioting last month. But they deny that it was a shakedown, claiming that Moratorium leaders issued the story to discredit them. When the violence did come in Washington, the Weathermen were in the thick of it (see THE NATION...