Word: halo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kane comic- book character, earned well over $1 billion in its theatrical and video release and in a boffo merchandise blitz. Yet, however imposing its grosses, however many kids in developing countries wore T shirts with the logo that is supposed to look like a bat in a halo but inevitably suggests a gaping mouth with five rotten teeth, the film was wan, jangled, lost in meandering murk...
Couched in a halo of nutrient cells, an egg smaller than the dot on an i drifts slowly down a Fallopian tube, one of a pair of narrow passages that lead from a woman's ovaries to her womb. Like a beacon guiding ships at night, the egg sends forth a calling signal. A convoy of sperm -- the remnants of an armada that was once a couple of hundred million strong -- sails into view, their long tails thrashing vigorously. Lured by the chemical signal, several hundred of the most energetic swimmers close in on the egg, their narrow tips unleashing...
Left in the sun's place was a black orb surrounded by a wide, shimmering halo -- the solar corona, visible only during an eclipse, when it is not obscured by the sun's bright glare. From the 12 o'clock position, an enormous red-orange flame flared beyond the halo; smaller "prominences" appeared at the 3 and 6 o'clock positions. Murmurs of wonder rose from the shivering crowd draped in the steel-gray light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through...
...have long known that some kind of dark matter exists. One clue is that many galaxies spin so fast that they should fly apart; the gravity from some unseen extra matter must be holding them together. Studies indicate this material surrounds the Milky Way galaxy in a roughly spherical halo. In regions of the universe where galaxies are clustered, dark matter seems to pervade the space within the clusters. Calculations suggest there is about 10 times as much dark as visible matter. That means that the gravitational pull of dark matter is 10 times as strong. Thus, it must have...
Juxtaposition of contradictory images is a favorite technique of these artists. Another piece which does this admirably is Grosz's "Keep Smiling," portaying a well-dressed urban man, whose capital silouhette is suggestive of the lines of a machine, under a dollar-sign halo. The man is stamped "100% U.S.A.," and is stereotypical of the mechanized and greedy citizen of metropolital America...