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...decided to experiment with a little-known, foul-smelling liquid called carbon suboxide (C3O2). As the physicists increased its temperature, the compound solidified and underwent a series of color changes from pale yellow to orange, reddish brown, purple and a shade approaching black. Although the yellow vaguely resembled the tint of Venusian clouds, the range of colors was far more suggestive of the surface of Mars, which undergoes still unexplained variations in shading and color. Furthermore, spectroscopic studies of carbon suboxide produced results closely resembling those obtained from the reflected light of Mars...
...believe a lot of the show," he told me. "Take the words to The Flesh Failures -Timothy Leary Deary" and 'Facing a dving nation with supreme visions of lonely tint.' I cringe every night as we sing those lyrics. I think that a lot of the lyrics in the show are embarrassing. It's very hard for me to stand up naked and sing, 'Beads, flowers, freedom, happiness.' I mean nobody ever wears beads anymore. The people that are wearing beads are the people that buy them at Tie City. Already, the show is dated, and even before the show...
Awesome Views. Shots of the moon taken from Apollo 10 in its 69-mile-high orbit clearly showed that some areas of the moon have a brownish tint, confirming the astronauts' description. There were awesome views of rugged mountains, long canyons and deep craters with white walls glinting starkly in the sunlight. By contrast, the cloud-swirled earth looked warm and hospitable as it was seen rising above the moon's horizon. Shots of alternate landing sites in the Sea of Tranquility gave support to Stafford's observation that they were "very smooth, like wet clay...
Proud Zigs. As the works grew more monumental, Smith experimented with bright enamels to keep his monuments joyful. Color endows three flat, empty-centered "Circles" with dashing zest. Enamels brighten the statuesque "Zig" (for Ziggurat) series of tilting or semicircular sheets of steel. Nature itself is meant to tint the burnished-steel "Cubi" series. "I polish them," Smith explained, "so that on a dull day they take on a dull blue or the yellow glow of an afternoon...
...begin with, Puzo avoids the opera buffa nicknames that newspaper rewrite men use to lend a tint of life to their gangster stories. Secondly, Puzo's Corleone family has manly standards. Gambling, labor extortion, an occasional unavoidable murder and some judicious bribery are all in order. But no prostitution or drugs. These enterprises offend the strait-laced sensibility of the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone...