Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swiss-born New Yorker Franchise Grossen knots wool and sisal into shields of intricate scalloping. The shaggy tapestries of Poland's Magdalena Abakanowicz have the look of untanned animal hides. The loose, three-dimensional web of New Yorker Sherri Smith's Volcano no. 10 hangs clear of the wall so it can be seen from either side. Paris-based Nebraskan Sheila Hicks abandoned the loom altogether to create her modular The Principal Wife, eight individual units that hang from a rod and can be added to indefinitely...
...lege alone, but on deep-seated American tradition and hundreds of thousands of lesser elections. In these races a party label is vital, and the two major political organizations would not necessarily be affected by a change in the electoral system. Presidential candidates would still need this wide web of support; the lack of party money and party workers would still discourage and inhibit maverick challengers. On balance, though, the Bayh amendment would probably weaken the two-party system, encourage the entrance of splinter candidates, and stimulate the ideological divisions in a system that has usually avoided them...
...resort owners in other countries. All the new resorts are built high on the mountain so that skiers can stay on the slopes into summer. Since the areas were simply created rather than built around existing towns, the promoters have been able to avoid becoming entangled in the confusing web of village politics and expropriation laws. Finally, they were able to install the most modern equipment and are not, like most U.S. and European resorts, plagued by inadequate lift facilities...
...detect pollution. Before their plan is presented at the U.N. World Conference on Environment in 1972, Blair plans to test a prototype station. The system's scope will appear only as a vast number of small details are analyzed. The ability of a spider to spin a web, for example, can be affected by air pollution; mosses, which accumulate lead from the environment, are a good measure of lead pollution. In effect, the system will be analogous to the old practice of placing canaries in coal mines to warn miners of impending lethal concentrations...
...democracies either. How could he? Fascism, despair, hysteria, exploitation, economic anguish, war and the threat of war-all those things that Marx had taught him would herald the destruction of capitalism were all about him. What fell from Chambers, as he explained, was not merely Communism but "the whole web of the materialist modern mind-the luminous shroud which it has spun about the spirit of man, paralyzing in the name of rationalism the instinct of his soul for God, denying in the name of knowledge the reality of the soul...