Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest surprise in Amsterdam was the talk about a new kind of AIDS. Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center described five instances of people who suffer from an AIDS-like illness and yet bear no trace of HIV anywhere in their body. When a similar case was reported at last year's AIDS conference in Florence, it was dismissed as a fluke. This year several scientists in the audience stood up to tell of other cases of non-HIV AIDS, bringing the total to about 30 -- a number that is small but impossible to ignore...
...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...
...February 1990, Lujan visited New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument. There he stunned local officials gathered around the centuries-old "Dancing Kachina Petroglyph" when he bent down beside an adjacent rock and scratched it with a knife. The Secretary was asked to refrain. Lujan explains the incident without a trace of embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife, and I made a scratch no longer than about a quarter...
...portray King as a large, aggressive man who was legally drunk. Much was made of the officers' claim that they thought King had gained unusual strength and tolerance to pain because, they believed, he was under the influence of angel dust -- the hallucinogenic drug pcp. Subsequent tests showed no trace of the drug in King's system...
Difference is not always a problem. Hung Nguyen was a 16-year-old Vietnamese refugee who spoke no English when he arrived in 1978 with his family in Armidale, a small town in New South Wales. Now his English has only a slight trace of a Vietnamese accent, and he is training to be a surgeon -- one of Australia's first medical specialists of Vietnamese origin -- in Launceston, Tasmania. He has easily moved into the society he has come to call his own. Nguyen's sister married an Australian of Irish descent; one of his friends is a Greek...