Word: diagrams
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...mind's eye and lose his bearings. Contemplating this beckoning No Where, Miró painted on it hard-edged iconographs that pinned the eye to the real surface, the mind to the real world. But not wholly. His image of the earth (a white circle) is only a diagram; the sun (a red circle) is disputed by an aggressive black triangle that symbolizes - what...
Later in the week, using leads turned up in the arrests, police and FBI agents raided two F.A.L.N. hideouts, in Jersey City, N.J., and Milwaukee. They seized guns and bombmaking equipment. Police also found a diagram of New York's Madison Square Garden, the site of this summer's Democratic National Convention...
...historical perspective of Marley's battle against Babylon. The album cover features a quote attributed to Marcus Garvey, the late Jamaican black leader: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots." The inner-sleeve has a centuries-old diagram illustrating how to best pack black Africans into a slave ship. Marley's songs elaborate on these themes of black exploitation...
...suggest a tragic sense of history. A case in point is his dreadful reliquary of Auschwitz, from the Stroher collection in Darmstadt: its few objects in a glass case-blocks of fat on a battered electric hot plate, moldering sausages, a mummified rat on a straw bed, a diagram of the camp, a drawing of a child-are perhaps the most poignant, and certainly the least exploitative, image in modern art of that catastrophe...
...staff members of the tiny Madison Press Connection (circ. 11,398) were distributing copies of an eight-page "extra" edition around Wisconsin's capital. The innocuous-sounding front-page headline: A CITIZEN WRITES TO A SENATOR. The incendiary subject: hydrogen bomb "secrets" with details and even a crude diagram. Whether any of it could result in an actual bomb would soon be bitterly debated. What was immediately clear was that the paper had blown apart the legal vises tightened against three other publications seeking to print H-bomb exposés and, for the moment, headed off a collision...