Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen greatest portraits of the 20th century, was based on a mediocre Fang mask from Gabon. Sometimes, though, a modernist work would take off from an African object of the first rank. Such was the case with Picasso's bronze of Marie-Therese Walter, 1931, whose erotically swollen blimp of a nose is based on an effigy he owned of the fertility goddess Nimba from the Baga. The sight of these two sculptures confronting each other is as much a spectacle of parity as a Rubens beside its prototype, a Titian...
Anderson's business is flying balloons--most more than 100 times the size of the Good year Blimp--an activity which has won him a reputation as one of the world's top experts in atmospheric chemistry. And in doing so, he has found himself at the heart of one of today's most pressing environmental questions...
...standing as tall as six feet at the shoulders and weighing up to 1,800 lbs. with antlers six feet across. Yet the moose is about as ferocious as a mouse. Many hunters concede that shooting the lumbering, dimwitted beasts is about as challenging as firing at a Goodyear blimp...
...work gamed international attention recently when he used a translucent helium-filled balloon 100 times the size of the Goodyear blimp" and "as high as the John Hancock Building" in Boston to lower a 150lh. package of measuring devices repeatedly through the stratosphere...
...years to test the state of the R-to see how much lowlife energy can be splattered on-screen without drawing an X rating. It also offers technicians with eyes on loftier assignments a chance to parade their craft by aiming low, like a sniper at a grounded blimp. Director Sherman is a young-old hand at this (remember Raw Meat?); he keeps the camera steady, the action terse and his cast overacting at a uniform pitch that amounts to a house style. The movie does not stint on intelligently choreographed thrills. Like a sleek, knowledgeable hooker, Vice Squad delivers...