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...destiny that could be realized only in work in which distinct form and deep space gave way to flat, thin washes of color. Some very good art would meet that description, by Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis and so on. But a lot of it had a distinct whiff of the endgame about...
...spent many millions of dollars a year on the technology. It was even used for a while during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to hamper supply movement. By the 1980s, however, the science of cloud seeding acquired a snake-oil whiff, as disreputable private companies tried hawking it to desperate, drought-ridden communities. Within the decade, it had fallen out of favor...
...complicated one nonetheless. "It's the classic elephant-in-the-room syndrome," says a Western banker who advises the State Investment Co. "Where does he sit? Anywhere he wants, sure. But he's got to be very careful that he doesn't squash anything when he does." The mere whiff of a rumor that, say, Beijing may shift part of its foreign-exchange holdings from dollars into euros has rattled world currency markets several times in the past year...
...complicated one nonetheless. "It's the classic elephant-in-the-room syndrome," says one Western banker who advises the State Investment Company. "Where does he sit? Anywhere he wants, sure. But he's got to be very careful that he doesn't squash anything when he does." The mere whiff of a rumor that, say, Beijing may shift part of its foreign-exchange holdings from dollars into euros has rattled world currency markets several times in the past year...
...modification. It was even used during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall on the Ho Chi Minh trail to hamper supply movement, until word got out and the U.S. agreed not to play with the weather while making war. In the 1970s, the science of cloud seeding acquired a whiff of the snake oil, as disreputable private companies tried hawking it to desperate, drought-ridden communities. And by the following decade, it had fallen out of favor (its use in Vietnam, which reminded some people of Agent Orange, probably didn't help much), and funding fell off with...