Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were still firmly in control of Cambodia. Although his name, from the Sanskrit, means "lionhearted," he was a pampered prince, fussed over by a covey of nannies; not long ago, to illustrate the importance of milk to a conference of his economic advisers, he introduced them to his old wet nurse...
...sensual to turn inside," he says. "I was driving myself crazy as an art student. One teacher agreed and even called me schizophrenic." Now Segal takes a short cut to sculptures; he makes splint personalities by making thin-walled plaster molds of his friends, blurring and refining the wet plaster to his purposes. With his unconventional technique, Segal found a new reality emerging while the plaster set. "To hold a pose for 40 minutes," says he, "you can't be in a social or artificial posture. Then the body reveals certain truths about itself." Idealization, he found, disappeared...
...word is abhesive, and it was coined by a scientist several years ago to describe something that refuses to let other material cling to it. The substance that inspired the word is a peculiar and promising product called Teflon, a slippery white plastic that feels something like a wet bar of soap.* Discovered in 1938 almost accidentally by Du Pont scientists who were working on fluorocarbon refrigerants, Teflon has other valuable properties: it will burn only when directly exposed to flame, is a superior electrical insulator and resists tears and impact...
After the kidnap-slaying of a rich widow's young son, police chase the two killers to the wet end of a jetty in the harbor at Cannes. Suddenly, three men step forth, each claiming that he is an innocent bystander and the other two the culprits. All their alibis seem as dubious as their morals...
...weather has been just about as warm in Hanover as in Cambridge recently, and the snow has begun to melt on the courses. Dartmouth has hauled snow in by truck from the surrounding countryside, however, and the tracks should be covered, if somewhat wet, for the races...