Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the Foreign Relations Com mittee is regarded as more pro-SALT than the full Senate, this razor-thin margin was seen as evidence of the rough time SALT II still faces. Indeed, some analysts feel that the pact's toughest and most in transigent opponents have been holding their fire, waiting for the proceedings to move to the Senate floor, probably around Thanksgiving...
...Rudyard Kipling; the same dark, emphatic brows, bristle-broom mustache, prognathic jaw and mordant cast of eye behind steel-rimmed glasses. But when he described himself, there was no mistaking the original style of the most literate, widely traveled humorist of his time: "Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible...
Resurrecting the man and his oeuvre through the thin and scattered relics he left, could not have been an easy job. But it has resulted in a fascinating exhibition, 'Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist," now finishing its run at New York's Museum of Modern Art and due to open at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on Nov. 27. It is the fruit of several years' research by Art Historians William Agee, director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Barbara Rose. As an American painter, Agee claims in his excellent catalogue, Bruce...
There were technical differences between the bulbs that, Edison's partisans say, made his superior. For example, Swan's carbon rod was fairly thick, Edison's filament was thin. But a crucial difference was that Swan stopped with inventing the bulb, while Edison took what would now be called a "systems approach"; he saw that the bulb had to be only one of a whole series of inventions. To make it in the first place, he and his assistants had to produce a more complete vacuum than had ever been known before. Then they had to devise...
...author hopes to convince the reader not with the poignant accuracy of his images and characterizations, as in realistic fiction, but with the subtle, subliminal--but equally poignant--truth underlying the fabrication of plot and character. Kafka, Borges, Lem and Marquez succeed on this secondary level by treading a thin line between fantasy and realism--in The Castle, for example. Kafka's careful use of language preserves this ambiguity: the reader is never quite sure of what to accept as plausible, and what to reject as implausible, so that such a distinction ultimately loses all significance...