Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comfortable in my home with my husband, two small children and an infant, and I am not about to go to Alabama. But from the bottom of my heart I do want to thank all of the ministers, rabbis, nuns, college professors, students, and just good plain white folk who took their lives in their hands and went on my behalf...
Under the false bottom of a rattling old truck sprawls the little group of terrified men wedged head by foot, unable to move, forbidden to speak, scarcely able to breathe. Inches below, the well-worn tires jounce over a foreign road. Inches above, the cargo of pigs and sheep shifts nervously with every bounce, their hooves clattering on the floor, their droppings seeping through...
...offices-on-the-bottom, apartments-on-top building seems a promising new concept for modern metropolis dwellers and real estate operators. Because of fumes, taxi horns and all-night neon signs, the lower floors of most centrally located apartment houses have been a drug on the market. By giving apartments a piggyback ride on the top of office buildings, realtors can not only lift tenants far above the hurly-burly of the streets, but also keep them close to the city's center...
Artist as Analyst. A spate of recent shows has established that contemporary portraits are two-way mirrors. Larry Rivers makes a collage portrait of Pop Artist Jim Dine on a metal storm window. Raise the bottom half, lower the top pane, and presto, a different Dine peers through. Pop Artist Andy Warhol tries to beat the penny-arcade snapshot by silk-screening the image many times over. Reginald Pollack found he had painted himself into a corner; his Self-Portrait (opposite page) shows his face surrounded by images of the girl he was then courting. She outnumbers...
Whether autonomous or not, the suit was well-insulated and covered with a white material to reflect all possible sunlight, for maintaining tolerable temperatures is one of the major problems in the design of space suits. Because sunlight in space is twice as strong as at the bottom of the atmosphere, and contains ultraviolet rays that quickly weaken many materials, the outer layer of a space suit must not only ward off light and heal, but must be proof against ultraviolet...