Word: burial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started my business in Florida," he says, "because I thought I'd make a lot of money from old people who were attached to their pets. But they're mostly into cremation and burial. They're afraid of new ideas. Most of my customers are younger, in their 20s, with no kids, from the Midwest...
Strangely enough, those people who have called Jeff to inquire about freeze- drying a human being have been asking not about a beloved, deceased relative but about themselves. They are people who are less interested in avoiding conventional burial and cremation than they are in striving for immortality...
Unlike the Courbet exhibition in Paris in 1977, it leaves out several of the most ambitious Second Empire paintings: A Burial at Ornans, The Meeting, The Bathers -- with its "Hottentot Venus," as one hostile critic called her, that waddling wardrobe of a nude that became the scandal of the 1853 Salon. Also missing is Courbet's "real allegory," The Painter's Studio, which hangs at the Musee d'Orsay. Such things can no longer be moved. Without them, can a Courbet retrospective make full sense? Emphatically yes. The character of Courbet the painter is richly distributed through his work...
...have survived the attacks of the critics of his day. What was realism to his enemies? Atheism, socialism, materialism, crudity: a denial of all decent control. An audience that doted on the rococo peasant had insuperable difficulties with Courbet's frieze of worn faces and homespun black suits in Burial at Ornans, 1850. He painted, someone gibed, the way one waxed boots. He was seen as a dangerous socialist, a besmircher of the ideal, a bucolic thug from the Franche-Comte trampling all over the classical tradition with his wooden clogs...
...with the waste problem. The French have pioneered a process called vitrification that involves mixing radioactive wastes with molten glass. Over time, the hot mass should cool into a stable, if highly radioactive, solid that can be buried deep underground. The U.S. is also pursuing a strategy of deep burial, but the process has become ensnared in regional politics. Some sites that might have been suitable for an underground storage facility -- the granite mountains of New Hampshire, for example -- were quickly ruled out because of opposition from nearby residents. The one site now being considered, a remote mountain in southern...