Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allocated among his heirs. His vast holdings included a bank, more than 50 tankers, Olympic Airways, which the Greek government has agreed in principle to buy, and a half-share of Manhattan's not-yet-completed Olympic Tower, whose 51 stories of offices and superluxurious apartments dwarf St. Patrick's Cathedral next door...
...size from the bulky C124 "flying boxcars" of the '50s to a tiny, two-seater helicopter. Dominating the scene is a formation of 36 enormous B-52 intercontinental bombers, tied to the ground with wire as if to prevent them from flying off on their own. They dwarf a swarm of shining Navy combat jets parked five abreast, and beyond them, a row of Grumman Tracers with radar mounted like toadstools on top. Elsewhere are scores of F-4 Phantom IIs, looking like hooded hawks, their cockpit windows sprayed with a protective plastic, and squadrons of F-102 Delta...
...images of the 18th century with The Night mare (1781). The painting ought not to work. It is too literal, too obvious. Its spectral horse with Ping Pong ball eyes puffs and blows through a fold in the cur tain, and the goblin looks like an irri table Irish dwarf. It is, in fact, the kind of painting that seems merely an aggressive pantomime in a post-psychological culture like ours. Yet nearly 200 years after it was painted, one cannot help ad miring the symbolizing effort that went into it: no other painting of Fuseli...
...unduly; the new rules award carte blanche visas to an elite of "low risk" animals. These include 400 kinds of fish (mostly tropical species for collectors), 60 birds (mainly game fowl), 43 mammals (lab monkeys, plus zebras, aardvarks and other common zoo animals), and two amphibians (the horned and dwarf-clawed frogs). The result will be less exotic selections in pet stores, but also fewer threats of disease and periodic invasions...
...France. His L 'Hôpital has a jolting impact: beyond the window is the peaceful French village where Dado now lives. Inside, a demon in the shape of an owl crouches by the central crucifix, near the dancing man and his maimed and malevolent companion. A rotund dwarf grins and looks away. What does it mean? Perhaps that these phantasms exist, within any hospital's clutching walls, even when life goes on routinely on the outside...