Word: daylighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduce as much daylight as possible, Kahn has designed slots that run along the top of each vault, permitting artfully diffused natural light to flood the galleries below. In random pattern, sections of the roof vaults have been removed to make open sculpture courts, providing greenery and glimpses...
...drifts unerringly into an intense and personal comedy where physical infirmity must be overcome in order to justify friendship and retain an all-important self-respect. The shift in El Dorado's tone is ironically matched by Hawks' stylization: the potential tragedy is played almost entirely in bright daylight, and as the mood of the film lightens, El Dorado moves into a rich and sombre darkness, pointing up the seriousness of Hawks' vision and the importance of the issues he raises. Structurally, the film closely parallels The Iliad. Hawks' glorious and affirmative art redeems 20th century man from an emasculating...
...have nightmares in the daylight glare...
...makes the difference, Van Allen says, is an electrical potential of 50,000 volts generated across the earth's comet-shaped magnetic field by a combination of two complex effects. As the solar wind blows by the earth, compressing the magnetic field into a rounded shell on the daylight side and sweeping it into a long tail on the night side (TIME, April 22, 1966), it produces friction on the outer boundary of the magnetic field. This friction generates a positive electrical charge on the morning side of the boundary, a negative charge on the opposite, or evening, side...
Lester's first film (in 1959) was a much-praised Sellers' short called The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film, which won an Oscar nomination. Lester was then given a couple of low-budget potboilers to direct, and moved out into daylight with the two Beatles' extravaganzas, which gave the impression of being acted on flying trapezes and established Lester's image as the blithe spirit of the surreal. They also made his fame. "When I lie dying," he says, "the Evening Standard will headline BEATLES' DIRECTOR IN DEATH DRAMA...