Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting, cows jump over moons, lovers float like lost balloons, roosters and angels hover like Technicolor constellations on the dome of a painterly planetarium. This kind of levitation has been stunning in dozens of paintings and murals but never more suitable than in his new ceiling for the Paris Opéra (see opposite page...
Underground tests, such as the one that the U.S. conducted last week in a salt dome near Baxterville, Miss., are much more expensive and not as convenient to observe. They are also harder to detect and might well be carried out in secret...
...similar splinter group is Spain's Equipo 57, who like others sign their work collectively (lower left). Their theory starts with "interactivity," in which any two planes in a painting are separated by an Scurve, and end up as mathematically interlocked-and complicated-as a Bucky Fuller dome...
...program last week got a handsome present. It is the world's most sensitive radio antenna, a 120-ft. aluminum dish named Haystack for the New England hill on which it rests. Balanced like spokes on a bicycle wheel, protected from the weather by a golf-ball-looking dome that is the world's largest metal-frame radome, Haystack is now tuned and ready. Its tasks will range from radar tracking of a satellite 20,000 miles in space to holding a two-way radio conversation with a speeding space probe 100 million miles from earth...
Already seen by over 750,000 Americans in 13 cities, the touring exhibit centers on Kennedy's famous rocking chair. It rests on a dias, ringed with flags, directly under the high, glass dome of the rotunda in the museum...