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There were certainly no letdowns in this one, and the "second half collapse" seems to be a thing of the past. A faint and distant nightmare...
...from the roof of the East Building of Washington's National Gallery of Art. Calder's genius in the '20s and '30s was for making extraordinarily delicate and literally "wiry" sculptures that danced at a breath. However close you got to them, they still seemed distant in their fragility; in extreme cases, like the wonderful Tightrope, 1937, with its wire personages balancing on a string between two balks of wood, they are so fine as to be almost unphotographable. Real as the pleasures of early Calder are, however, they don't have the imaginative force of Picasso, Gonzalez -- or Smith...
...according to one industry expert, any results to Hampshire's efforts were on the very distant horizon, and would require substantial, long-term financial investments...
...successful, an investment in X-ray lithography could prove profitable in the distant future, Boucher said, adding that Hampshire, as an early venture into the development of the new technology, faced some inevitable stumbling blocks...
...gained some insight into the mechanism of the disease, but while the five-year survival rate of women with breast cancer has risen from 78 percent in the 1940s to 93 percent today, the disease still baffles scientists who attempt to explain its origins, and a cure remains a distant goal...