Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...m.p.h. gale is blowing in a blinding sheet of snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about on the slippery, freezing deck like madmen. No need to shout here: the screaming wind and throbbing drill machinery make conversation next to impossible...
...city? Maybe to survive in that city crowded like sardines, people develop over-developed larynxes? Whatever the reason, it's the noise the women make that counts. Still it does sound at times like just about every middle class woman in the city is trying to be Joan of Arc...
HILLES LIBRARY Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath, Oct. 26 at 9:30, Oct. 27 at 3:45, $1, Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc, Oct. 26 at 8, Oct. 27 at 2:30, free...
...Western religions, with a healthy measure of Western-style hero-worship thrown in. The Cao Dai, whose temples were adorned with the Masonic eye, considered as major deities Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed. They harbored in their pantheon of lesser deities such people as Marcus Aurelius, Georges Clemenceau, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Jefferson. Winston Churchill was enshrined after 1945, but Charlie Chaplin was considered and dropped as a candidate for sainthood at about the same time...
...subtly indicated force, a sense of form working under confinement at several points above normal pressure. That Kelly is a most able draftsman can easily be seen from his pencil drawings of leaves and fruit - but in the abstract mode, he draws like a virtuoso. The decisiveness of the arc in Blue Curve, V, 1973, is (when seen in its large, actual size - it is about 6 ft. by 9 ft.) breathtaking; no other line, one senses, could have contained the buoyant, intrusive swell of the blue with such steely grace, or struck such a happy proportion with the white...