Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bottom of Ladder Sharp...
...imprisoned by gravity, had to rest on an obvious base. In his Spheroid II, Ferber tried to eliminate the platform. The sculpture has the suggestion of an outer surface; but inside, everything is movement, with each form challenging every other. Taken literally, the sculpture does have a top and bottom, but esthetically it does not. Since it is in constant motion, its base is gone...
Sylvester's opposite number at Foggy Bottom made the same point in somewhat less colloquial terms. The whole problem has "been obscured in the great fog bank of clichés raised by some of the press,'' said Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Robert Manning. The State Department, he insisted, "is as wide open as Yankee Stadium." Could be, cracked Connecticut Democrat John Monagan, but "we have had a lot of trouble with the turnstiles...
...compete with Polaroid for the amateur snapshot market. But for some special applications, its lack of negatives or complicated chemical developers is a distinct asset. All that is necessary is to spray the film's photoconductive plastic top with an easily generated positive charge of static electricity. The bottom layer of the film carries an equal, but opposite, negative charge. Those two electric charges, although powerfully attracted to each other, are kept apart by the thin plastic film...
...casting takes less than an hour. In it, the furnace is set on a tower directly above a tall, vertical mold, which is water-cooled. As the mol ten steel is poured into the mold, it solidifies and inches downward, emerging as a glowing sheet of steel at the bottom of the mold, where it is cooled further and chopped into slabs for convenient handling. Meanwhile, molten steel is steadily added from above so that a continuous ribbon of steel is produced. The continuous casting process can be almost completely automated, produces a uniform grade of steel, and in German...