Word: displays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light artists were homegrown in psychedelic land. Most of them have tried their hand at forms of conventional painting or sculpture, but they are likely at the same time to have Ph.D.s in physics, to have worked as display artists or rocketry engineers. Among lumina's leading lights...
...activated a battery of projectors behind a translucent screen. He became so skillful that he was able to create what he called lumia compositions-slowly evolving, shifting, glowing abstract patterns. At the Weimar Bauhaus, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy between 1922 and 1930 devised a polished metal and clear plastic Light Display Machine. But such items remained isolated curios ities. It took the 1950s and 1960s to attract a whole spectrum of artists to the medium...
Turquet owns Super-Marché de Poche, Paris' first computerized grocery store, which in the space-starved city sells 1,700 articles in its 240-sq.-ft. display area. A customer is given a plastic envelope and directed to the shelf space, which bears one sample of each product, plus a pile of punch cards. As he shops, he selects white cards for spices, blue for canned goods, red for dairy products, and so on. Finally he gives the cards to an operator who feeds them to a computer; in seconds the machine spews out a list...
...Christian in a triangular track meet. Matson is the only man in the history of track and field to put the shot 70 ft. or more-once in May 1965, and again last February. Against Baylor and T.C.U., he did it three times in a day. In a remarkable display of strength and consistency, World Record Holder (at 70 ft. 7¼ in.) Matson heaved the 16-lb. ball 70 ft. 5½ in., 70 ft. 5½ in., and 70 ft. even...
...seems most natural, lucid, and powerful when writing of Maine in the first two poems. The other three are of New York: "The Opposite House" and "Central Park" are brief, clear, and properly depressing. But the final poem, itself called "Near the Ocean," although it boasts an impressive technical display of straight rhymes, off-rhymes, and sight rhymes, and some extremely forceful language, is loosely constructed and lacks the clarity of the other pieces. The police in the last stanza of "The Opposite House, the lion and the kitten in "Central Park," the end of "Fourth of July...