Word: fathomless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imagination. Many inmates conclude that the experience of prison makes someone other, and worse, than himself. Perhaps. Surely it makes one different for the time he spends in prison. For a year or two or 20, life consists solely of repeated details, the slamming of gates, and constant, fathomless solitude...
...Administration has nonetheless had some success in trimming U.S. oil imports. In April they totaled 6.7 million bbl. per day, compared with 7.8 million bbl. per day for the same month in 1979. But energy independence is still fathomless barrels away. Last week Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s largest foreign energy supplier, hiked the price of oil 8%, to $28 per bbl., thus narrowing the gap with the OPEC nations that charge about $35 per bbl. Defending the tattered and admittedly rather feeble fee to a congressional subcommittee, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller warned: "Backing away from such...
...biologist's symbols, and just as unvoluptuous. Male phalluses are always limp, and female vaginas sharp-edged and abstract, even when surrounded by flaring flames. "The sex organ has a poetic power, like a comet," Miró says. Those figures - sometimes gay, sometimes grotesque - that posture against fathomless space are what Miró's latter-day disciples have most tried to imitate. But Miró could not care less. He still feels himself as an explorer. A series of canvases that he produced in 1961 are as empty as any minimalist could wish. In Blue II, a staccato...