Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deep in the shadow of the Tower of London, stands the imposing, boxlike building that is the new home of the two papers, as well as of the tabloids the Sun and the News of the World. Ringing the Wapping compound are surveillance cameras, fences 8 ft. high and thick coils of concertina wire studded with razor blades. The police allow only a few pickets to stand vigil at the gate, but some nights thousands of protesters show up to do battle with hundreds of bobbies, all the while screaming epithets at their onetime boss...
...most rocket experts, the telltale black smoke meant that right from the start, at least one of the two synthetic rubber O rings that were meant to seal the joint between the rocket's segments had begun to burn. Roughly a quarter-inch thick and 37.5 ft. in circumference, the large O rings rest in grooves at the three joints. Like the washers that prevent faucets from leaking, they are designed to keep the rocket's exhaust gases from escaping through any gaps in the joints. These are especially vulnerable under the immense forces generated at lift-off (the entire...
Among the few respectable things in that stew of American vanguard kitsch, the 1985 Whitney Biennial, was a large painting by a 36-year-old artist named Terry Winters. Done in a thick, ocherous impasto, which produced a paint surface that looked both lavish and summarily abbreviated, the image suggested (of all unlikely things) mushrooms: swollen glands like morels, crinkled and cellular, standing up in ranks like an array of mysterious brown balloons. It was odd to find any painting in such a show that addressed itself--however obliquely or eccentrically--to nature. But its relation to nature...
Winters thinks of the thick paint as "one of the tools and devices associated with expressionism"--but no more than that. He objects to being tagged as a neoexpressionist. "Whatever else it is about," he insists, "my work is not about the self. I want to get at something outside myself; one gets sick of looking at indulgent expressionist pictures that suck all the air out of the room." He prefers to think of his paintings as "diagrams that describe the way the world works," but one has to take this with a grain of salt. Actually, they come...
Other conclusions from Voyager's findings, according to Project Scientist Edward Stone: Uranus has a core consisting of rock and liquid, is covered by a deep ocean of water laced with dissolved ammonia, and is wrapped in a 5,000- mile-thick atmosphere consisting largely of hydrogen, with 10% to 16% helium and a scattering of methane and other gases...