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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most Buddhist shrines, Borobudur's architecture (see color opposite and overleaf) is symbolic. Rising in stepped terraces, signifying the ten stages of the Buddhist Way of Salvation, the temple is crowned by a bell-shaped stupa. Dozens of dagobas, or small stupas, dot the terraces, while the solid superstructure, measuring 400 ft. at the base and rising to a majestic 130 ft. in height, is laced with open galleries displaying statues and reliefs telling the story of Buddha's life...
Harry Lewis '68 flicked a switch in front of him. Orange lights began to flash, a blue cross flitted about the computer screen like Tinkerbell, and a circle on the screen was slowly--dot by dot--transformed into an airplane wing...
Loud enough for a band three times their size, decked out in such a motley blur of polka-dot pants, fringed suede shirts, neck chains, lizard boots and other psychedelic cowboy garb that they sometimes look like three times as many people, Cream go beyond oddness into originality. In a genre that is virtually defined by vocal effects alone, their slashing, blues-steeped sound is mainly instrumental; they even use their voices like instruments. Their motto: "Forget the message, forget the lyrics; just play...
...semidarkened room of Manhattan's Pace Gallery, a white box beams a ruby red light into a corner, then unmasks itself mechanically so that the dot of light draws itself around the room into a full square. Then the line undraws itself back into a red dot. In another room, a narrow wavy red line bobbles against the four walls simultaneously, producing a giant square of four red lines that imprints itself on the spectators as they walk between the wall and light source. In the last room, another homage to the square is created by a bold...
Skelmersdale--called Skelm--is the new town to the north. Skelm used to be a mining village. Small huts dot the side streets, soot stains mar the windows, and houses tip at crazy angles because of the mines below. Since World War II, the mines have been going out of business one-by-one. Unemployment has soared and wages fallen...