Word: wisps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astronomer at the Extrasolar Research Corp. in Pasadena, Calif., discovered it quite by accident while studying a cloud of gas in the constellation Taurus where a lot of stars are being born. When Terebey and her colleagues looked closely at one double-star system, they noticed a long wisp of gas trailing off into space, and at the end of the wisp, a tiny dot of light...
Amos likes to make her voice heard. In person she's a wisp--a mere 5 ft. 3 in. with pale strawberry hair--but she is given to big technicolor pronouncements, especially on the subject of Christianity: "At five I really believed Jesus and Mary [Magdalene] were in love, and there was this whole thing going on," and "When you really think about Christianity, it is a religion without a penis...
...shadowed outlines of the Appalachians, then leaned back against a pillow. In the dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. Suddenly, the plane shuddered in a pocket of severe turbulence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion and said: "I guess that's Birmingham down below...
They linger in the middle-age memory like invisible friends from childhood--a wisp of melody, an easy rhythm, a naive lyric that sounded like poetry then and rings with poignance today. You hear the old pop songs, and suddenly it's 1960; you are yanked back to the spot where they first assaulted you in all their potent mystery. "When I first heard Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack," says Tom Hanks, who was five in the summer of '61, "I literally thought it was about some guy hitting the road with his fist. I remember sitting...
...striking tableau that freezes in one's mind even as the camera keeps moving. Angelopoulos captures unforgettable images in scenes with the most carefully constructed, basic of elements: for example, the juxtaposition of a group of people and policemen, the one under wet, dark umbrellas and the other shining wisp-like lights. Angelopoulos works with a ponderous grace as if searching for the same pure style that A. seeks in the old reels...