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...volume, and the sculpture gives an illusionary effect of two dimensionality. This effect is increased because the piece cannot be viewed in the round; the composition demands that it be seen from a specific position. In addition, the welding technique tends to stress the edges between planes. The welds darken and suggest the lines of a drawing which are used to separate the planes in the representation of a three dimensional object. In Cubi I, the surfaces of the forms in shadow do not appear to go back into space behind the illuminated surfaces, instead they seem to be darker...
...After the TV came the standard publicity-the proud public announcements, the canned biographies of the cosmonauts. If it seemed stodgy and unsophisticated compared with the hoopla that surrounds U.S. space shots, the Russian performance was still perfectly timed. Voskhod trailed behind it an embarrassing shadow that seemed to darken the spring sunlight over Florida's Cape Kennedy. The planned U.S. Gemini shot dwindled in significance as Leonov's impressive feat added another first to the lengthening list that reminds the world how far the Russians are ahead in manned-space flight. Items: >First earth satellite, Sputnik...
Like a Fire. Last week, only a few weeks after the pound underwent one of its greatest tests of the century, Britain's cloud seemed to darken perceptibly. Talk swept London's City-and the Continent-about the further lack of trust in Labor, about the possibility of the pound's devaluation, and about a deterioration in the balance of trade. Though not all-perhaps not much-of the gossip was solidly based on fact, it burned as persistently and as contagiously as a fire in a peat...
Subjects who get a lift from the drug describe all colors as bright and gay-a traffic light may become an object of surpassing beauty. If the subject be comes depressed, the colors darken or bleach out. Highly colored geometric tapestries flow past the closed eyes...
...Coop's architect, Clifford H. Towne told the Council that "we feel that we have come up with a dignified building." He said that shadow studies made by the Coop showed that the bridge would not unduly darken Palmer...