Word: vaporize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts (ECM/Warner Bros.). Lyric dreams and vapor-trail improvisations on the jazz piano...
...appeared to be an aesthete to his fingertips. Staining, scumbling, glazing, building up those exquisite oblongs of color, he coaxed an amazing range of effects from a nominally simple format. Sometimes the paint has the grainy opacity of stone, sometimes it is no more than a puff, a vapor with color bleeding through it. It is never crude and only rarely inert. In this way a most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works...
...much resonance as possible. Even forward momentum is thwarted; the story is chopped into segments, some hardly more than snippets: "On a cold morning the woman sat in a rocking chair on the terrace, but she wasn't rocking. The child stood beside her, watching the clouds of vapor that came out of his mouth. The woman looked into the distance; the pines were reflected in the window behind...
When the gas spread across nearby Route 231, it looked at first like fog to Richard Kuhn, who was driving home to New York from a skindiving vacation in Florida. Then his van stalled and he got a whiff of the searing vapor. Kuhn strapped on his scuba air tank and walked out of the death cloud to safety. Another motorist, Donald Sellers of Tallahassee, a veteran of Army chemical-warfare training, recognized the gas as chlorine and told his wife to get to the floor of the car, where there was still breathable air. "We were both vomiting...
...skeptically, Amador agreed. He sailed for Panama with Bunau-Varilla's promise of $100,000 to bribe Colombian troops; he hid his new flag under his clothing, wrapped around his torso. After arriving in Panama, Amador sent a coded cable: "Fate news bad powerful tiger. Urge vapor Colon." It meant that Colombian troops were arriving in five days, and the revolutionary plotters requested a U.S. steamer at Colon. Bunau-Varilla hurried to Washington and soon afterward the U.S.S. Nashville arrived at Colon?triggering the Panamanian revolution, which remained peaceful due to the presence of U.S. troops...