Word: halo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fitting picture, and a fitting resemblance, to be chosen for the publicity of the Hemingway Centennial Conference: it was on posters, of free postcards; it lined the front of the seminar tables like bunting and--altered so that there actually appears to be a halo around the iconic figure--appears on the front of the Centennial's Conference Program. Hemingway attracted attention like a movie-star: at the conference's closing session, fellow Nobel laureate Derek Walcott called Hemingway "the first writer to become a real celebrity," and W.E.B DuBois Professor Henry Louis Gates proposed that "for some portion...
When he returned, he noticed a clear halo surrounding the yellow-green growth of a mold that had accidentally contaminated the plate. Unknown to him, a spore of a rare variant called Penicillium notatum had drifted in from a mycology lab one floor below. Luck would have it that Fleming had decided not to store his culture in a warm incubator, and that London was then hit by a cold spell, giving the mold a chance to grow. Later, as the temperature rose, the Staphylococcus bacteria grew like a lawn, covering the entire plate--except for the area surrounding...
...back to us, transfixed by the sight. And things are complicated a little further by a second window, on the right, that lights up the mother and child and leaves a brilliant splash of gold on the brass bed warmer hanging above the mother's head, like a displaced halo...
...book, which was a No. 1 London Times best seller earlier this year and has been climbing several U.S. lists since being published here last month. Thomas More is not hagiography. Yet here is the paradox: it has the power of a second, secular canonization, establishing More, sans halo, as a martyr for a lost cosmic connectedness, the exemplar of a once commonplace mysticism that Ackroyd has evoked and mourned in recent work...
About six miles from the Eiffel Tower, construction could begin soon on another outsize and controversial millennial project: a $42 million Earth Tower rising on wooden struts, bisected by restaurant and exhibition space and crowned by a floral halo of metallic petals. At 650 ft.--a height that will require passage of a special law in parliament--it would command stunning vistas comparable to those of the Eiffel and Montparnasse. Meanwhile, the Pompidou Center, with one of the biggest collections of 20th century paintings, is scheduled to reopen its doors at midnight Jan. 1, 2000, after being partly closed since...