Word: embeddedness
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Visibility was later officially described as "500 meters [about a quarter-mile] and changing" when Captain Grubbs finally told the passengers: "We are taking off now." This meant that most of the 11,155-ft. runway (nearly two miles) was invisible to a pilot at one end of it. It...
Typically, the physician pushes several hollow steel needles horizontally into the breast through the tumorous area and out the other side (see diagram). Thin plastic tubes are then threaded through the needles (which are subsequently removed) and anchored in place by small plastic buttons at either end. The iridium-in...
The show includes more than 150 works by 85 painters. Some of them, like American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and her French counterpart Berthe Morisot, are already embedded in the history of modern art. Others, just as famous in their day, now seem more like footnotes than culture heroines: Rosa
Baubles That Blink. Elizabeth Taylor's jewels sparkle. Lou Rawls' pendant and Joe Frazier's sweater pins merely blink. The singer and former heavyweight boxing champion are early addicts of a new kind of costume jewelry that is fitted with special electronic circuits and powered by a...
The Front is a schizophrenic film. The script attempts to treat seriously a tragic and chilling period of American history when the ideal of personal freedom was subordinated to the fear of a "Communist menace." But the film cannot resist a comic tendency that cheapens and detracts from its political...