Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiascos. The arena stage leaks away dramatic intensity. Open space proves to be the actor's enemy in this building, leaving him ungrounded, unfocused and lacking gravity. Watching a play in the vast vertical reaches of the Vivian Beaumont is like seeing a child's lost balloon float upward and upward until it becomes a speck against...
...Kids. Last month he took his 22-ft. red, white, blue and yellow creation up in a balloon. Casting off at 9,600 ft. over Tracy, Calif., he floated from breeze to breeze for 15 minutes. That put him one up on other kiters, who often get their lifts from auto tows...
...with its chisel teeth and spike tongue about to devour the undistorted silhouette of Picasso's own profile. Its delirium is prolonged, in a different way, in the Surrealist beach scenes at Dinard, like Bather Playing with a Ball, 1932 (39), populated by elephantine, grotesque she-bathers who balloon on the sand or fiddle intrusively at the keyholes of locked beach huts...
...days when Nadar used to fly in his balloon have given way to days when-people photograph Cambridge High School, Harvard Square, and Daytona Beach. "Contemporary Photographs II" incorporates many of these social landscapes into the second of the Fogg's documents on contemporary happenings in photography. Timothy Carlson '71, photographer writer on the Crimson, pictures Daytona Beach, from weekend college-beerdrinking crowds to V-formation flying birds. But Daytona isn't all beer and birds, it's sex, suds, sand and surf, and 23" Color T.V.'s for sale on beach walls. One couple, whose embrance is hidden...
...size and speed of a switch in the overall U.S. balance of payments, which went into the red by a record $5.8 billion in the second quarter. The Nixon Administration calculates that under present conditions and without the surcharge the American deficit, just in trade with other nations, would balloon to a $5 billion annual rate by 1972 as the U.S. economy moves back toward full employment and sucks in more imports. Instead, the U.S. wants to achieve a trade surplus of $8 billion; the difference between that and a $5 billion deficit produces Connally's figure...