Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoking the ball down the alley with laser-beam control. The Baltimore Orioles' Steve Barber, 28, a fastballing lefthander who in six years with the Orioles has compiled an eminently respectable 91-66 won-lost record, almost lived up to that notion three weeks ago. While beating the California Angels 3-0, he rarely allowed a ball out of the infield, walked only three men, and came within two outs of pitching the season's first no-hitter...
...interplanetary fleets. Robert Grosvenor's 24-ft.-long yellow Still No Title lanced downward from a portico of the museum building like a bolt of sunlight, ending a breath-taking eight inches from the pavement. John McCracken's brilliant blue column reflected shades upon shades of the California ethos; Lyman Kipp's Muscoot piled reds, greens, blues and yellows jauntily together like an enterprising architect's leftover bundle of construction beams...
Minimal sculpture, when seen indoors, commonly overwhelms the viewer. Outdoors, it takes on what Curator Tuchman, 30, calls "a heroic quality." Besides, it gets the benefits of the California sunshine, which Tuchman, who is a recent migrant from New York, describes rhapsodically as "more diffuse, more intense, with a pervasive glare, a kind of luminescence." Sol Lewitt's white jungle gym, for instance, gains a thousand chunky highlights from the sun. The California show also clearly demonstrates that the new cool geometry, which is often combined with bright color or gleaming industrial surfaces, is a truly nationwide movement...
Behind the buffoonery, well intentioned but risky as it may be, is the simple fact that P.A.L., which flies in Oregon, Nevada and California, yearns for a bigger chunk of the West Coast business, which is contested by seven other airlines, including United and Western. Last year was not happy for Pacific-net income dropped from...
...their ramshackle presses from one cluster of shacks in the sagebrush to the next. In their papers, they glorified each new stopping place as the seed of a surging city, though in fact they often went bankrupt, and some of the towns themselves disappeared. Two San Francisco papers, the California Star and the Californian, folded overnight when the city was emptied by the 1848 gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave up in disgust. "Of 20 men," he said, "19 patronize the saloons and one the newspaper, and I am going with...