Word: whole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hall's choice of Vanessa Redgrave for the central role, which requires mingling Southern U.S. and Italian accents, is unlikely but inspired. She plays a woman whose immigrant father was, unknown to her, murdered by her husband with the connivance of the town's whole power structure. The aggrieved woman dreams up a poetic revenge: to re-create within her dying husband's general store a semblance of the festive grape arbor where her family sold wine until they made the mistake of selling to blacks...
...faced a difficult problem: how to create a strikingly original cover image. Their solution was to approach Christo, the famed Bulgarian-born environmental sculptor. In earlier works Christo had draped in plastic large sections of the earth -- a stretch of Australian coast, a canyon in Colorado -- but never the whole planet. This time Christo bundled a 16-in. globe in polyethylene and rag rope and drove more than 350 miles up and down New York's Long Island in search of the perfect combination of light, air and sea for a photograph. The result -- Wrapped Globe 1988 -- is a fitting...
...weapons plants. But the greenhouse effect is forcing some antinuclear activists to rethink their position. "I was a strong opponent of the nuclear program in France," said Brice Lalonde, France's Environment Under Secretary and a former presidential candidate on the Ecologist Party ticket. "Now I am reassessing the whole thing." France gets more than 70% of its electricity from nuclear plants and has an impressive safety record...
...single most expensive pasta extant is the soft egg raviolo (the singular of ravioli) that is a $36 hot ticket at San Domenico, the best new Italian restaurant to open in Manhattan in the past five years. The large silky square of pasta enfolds spinach, ricotta cheese and a whole egg yolk that poaches as the raviolo cooks. But the reason for the price lies in the topping of hazelnut butter and a fine, if sparse, mincing of white truffles...
...designers propose to build a series of four small-scale, modular reactors that use fuel in such small quantities that their cores could not achieve meltdown temperatures under any circumstances. The fuel would be packed inside tiny heat-resistant ceramic spheres and cooled by inert helium gas. Then the whole apparatus would be buried belowground. Lawrence Lidsky, an M.I.T. professor of nuclear engineering, calls this an "inherently safe" approach: it relies on the laws of nature, rather than human intervention, to prevent a major accident...