In the "Bird Bath" series, Ms. Lee zeroes in on the debris accumulated during the four seasons, as the autumn leaves that cover the summer's nut shells acquire an icy coat in winter and a garnish of seed pods in the spring.
The research team replicated interstellar icy grains coated with carbon dioxide and water in an ultra-high vacuum chamber cooled to -450°F to mimic outer space.
Walking across the cold, deserted streets of the Kremlin was a lonely exercise, watched only by a handful of grim-faced guards in long wool coats, icy plumes of breath shooting from between compressed lips.
Held every four years, the meeting provides climatologists, civil engineers, and geologists with a chance to exchange research data about the icy layers that coat the ground in the world's coldest regions.
Sink thought the kid had plenty of sand and, muttering that he wasn't no wet nurse, pulled off the icy boots, unbuttoned coat and shirt, half hauled him stumbling to his bunk, and brought two hot rocks from under the stove to warm him up.
It is an icy ball with a coating of nitrogen, but between 1989 and 1998 astronomers watched it warm by 5%.
This look once suggested a sexy secretary, but today's woman holds a more confident position in the workplace — hence the occasional jacket or coat in icy colors and the use of leather or even shearling.
A bow-tied waiter named Fritz ushers us to a table and brings us goulash, tut-tutting the ornamental girl as she walks out into the icy darkness without a coat.
They have been dragooned out into the icy cold to slap new coats of paint on street signs and blocks of flats.Some say that such measures, combined with the currency grab, fuel resentment.
