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...Crisscross & Patchwork. "For me," she says, "the art of painting is an adventure. When I paint a landscape or a seascape. I'm not very sure it's a landscape or a seascape. It's a thought form rather than a realistic form." This vagueness makes a Vieira da Silva painting something of an adventure for the viewer as well. He may see a distant city, a clump of ruins. a suggestion of a bridge, a wispy shoreline, or just a shredded bit of grill. But whatever he sees may not be there for long. When...
...three days Cao feinted and jabbed, using U.S. Navy landing craft on the canals that crisscross the plain. Viet Cong Battalion 514 was backed into a corner 20 miles square. Then Cao struck. Mortar and howitzer shells pounded the square while sturdy AD6 Skyraiders swooped down, strafing and dropping napalm bombs. Some 100 soldiers of the 450-man battalion were killed, many more wounded. Colonel Cao's men captured 22 prisoners, including two nurses and two 15-year-old boys who claimed that their job was to sing and dance to entertain the guerrillas...
...reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Nothin' much happened. Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those far-away old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about it. It's pretty quiet now. Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire...
...energy (Nixon is 47, Kennedy 43). Only men still young could have hammered away at each other so hard for a steady hour, their heads so full of facts and figures. They showed the aggressiveness and alertness that makes them formidable campaigners, the drive that enables them relentlessly to crisscross the country all day, all week, to keep up the most exhausting schedules in the history of U.S. presidential campaigns...
Scrounged Parts. Only one satellite is needed for an accurate navigational fix, but when the Navy's system is operational in 1962, four satellites will crisscross in a synchronization planned to serve all quarters of the earth. The advantage to commercial shipping will be slight, since present methods are more than adequate. But the military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will...