Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your overdone account of the astronauts' brush with death is completely unrealistic. We lose brave men in the service every day, specifically due to "equipment failure" of one type or another. Yet their deaths are hardly noticed, except by their families. What's so different about an equipment failure in space? What is so important about this experimental gimmickry...
Otto Piene rejects the "microscopic" tools of the traditionalist-paint, brush, stone. His media are electricity, wind, gas, fire, smoke and movement. "There is one essential difference between Gothic cathedrals and rockets: a cathedral seems to soar, expressing the yearning of its builders to ascend to heaven; a rocket does soar. The same technical difference exists between traditional sculpture and my objects. Mine don't merely express something. They are something...
...vital oxygen tanks exploded. Last week, safely back in Houston, Jim Lovell and his crewmates took a far more cheerful view. "I foresee that we can get this incident over with," Lovell said, "and can charge ahead." The space agency shared his optimism. Despite Apollo's close brush with disaster, NASA officials seem more determined than ever to continue exploration of the moon...
...many genre scenes of daily life-making cider or bartering a horse-have primarily an historical and anecdotal interest. The best come from an unsentimental brush, free from the snare of an over-appealing subject. A winter scene in Brooklyn, half way between landscape and genre, shows a section of New York City as a country town with a wood pile in the foreground and animals walking in the snow...
...over to his bunk, one of several tiny rooms near the stalls. "This is a 24-hour-a-day job," he began. "We get here at 4:30 in the morning to feed and water the horses. After their exercises, we have to wash 'em, cool 'em, and brush 'em. Then we do 'em up. We rub their legs and bandage 'em with cotton and wraps. At 10:00 we feed and water the horses again. Before the race in the afternoon we get 'em ready. Then we wash 'em and walk 'em after each race. Feeding time might...