Word: viscous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troupe, and they slip with disconcerting ease from dance patterns in which they are sexually distinct figures, to movements in which they are asexual hominoids, and then further, to strange massings in which we see not figures but a wholly unfamiliar tree of elbows and buttocks, then a viscous fluidity of flesh that breaks like a wave, then a great, undifferentiated lump that slams itself about on the sculptor's table, startling us with its momentary resemblances to beasts remembered from dreams...
...large, slightly ruddy face. Altman looks different in person than he does in photographs; the face is less mephistophelian and more delicate--gentle, almost vulnerable. "I don't have anything to say," he begins, "but I'll answer any questions." His voice is higher than one would expect, viscous and slighly drawly, the vocal equivalent of the corn syrup produced in his native Kansas. For over an hour Altman answers questions from the 30-odd reporters sitting in front of him. He responds patiently and candidly, even when faced with questions he's obviously answered a hundred times...
...British National Oil Corp. was convinced that there is a huge lode of oil in the Shetlands area, but agreed with other petroleum experts that it would take several years to develop the technology to exploit it. Reason: initial samples show it to be much heavier and more viscous than North Sea oil, and therefore more expensive to raise and refine...
With a whirring of gears, a set of spools turns, unrolling a sheet of printing paper against the negative. The technicians meanwhile spread the patented Polaroid chemical reagent-a viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...
Indeed-and alas-this is Cinderella's story, retooled for music by the Sherman brothers (Mary Poppins), who specialize in producing viscous show tunes...