October 1 2013 December 14 201313 This genteel drama, set in a country estate near Syracuse in 1917, is not, in fact, a long-lost midcentury piece, dusted off for revival by Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC Theatre, but a new play, by Sharr White, written with an ear for mildew.
With its quaint descriptions of cheating partners betrayed by a cache of letters, City workers just about able to get away with two glasses of pinot at lunch, and five-bedroom houses in Hackney going for £250,000, was this an exercise in wry nostalgia or a genuine period piece, dusted off and given a new lease of life online?
"Otherwise you need to have a really good set designer going around putting little pieces of dust everywhere".
If that went well, there would be no obvious limit on the size of a glitterscope beyond, that is, the difficulty of herding a zillion pieces of dust.
After three years at most, the Smart will begin gathering tiny pieces of dust in showrooms, as Americans discover smarter places for their small-car dollars.
Over the years he has remade, and then photographed, Corot landscapes from thread, Marilyn Monroe from diamonds, various Process Art pieces from dust and, perhaps most famously, sugar cane child laborers from sugar.
"And now we smite them into tiny pieces of dust and destroy their goal with a ball set on fire by our volcanic thunder," it wrote at the start of the adventure.
Similar attractions could be occurring between molecules on the surfaces of different pieces of dust and rock.
It is relatively easy to get small pieces of dust to stick together, because of electrostatic forces and van der Waals forces (tiny forces arising from the polarity of molecules).
In trying to understand how comets, asteroids, and planets were built from microscopic pieces of dust whirling around the protoplanetary disk, modelers have a problem they call the "aggregation barrier".
