Word: dripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...console that is hooked into twelve three-story loudspeakers located about the rim of the planetarium, plus four bass speakers around the room. By turning a crank he can produce rings of sound racing smoothly about the dome's circumference. He can also make his sound tinkle and drip from side to side or leap in front of or behind an audience. Jacobs either uses taped works by other experimental electronics composers or pastes up his own random sounds to suit his taste...
...King Cotton. In one generation the percentage of cotton-fiber sales dipped from 85% to 65% of total U.S. fiber sales. But cottonmen are fighting back by developing goods with wash-and-wear finishes. Most of Dan River's cottons are now treated with finish that produces drip-dry, wrinkle-free cotton shirts, bedsheets...
...summer the U.S. has sent to Europe a show of American abstract expressionist paintings that the sponsors consider, at last, the counterpart of the 1913 show. The abstract expressionists have made their impact on the U.S. art world (some collectors are willing to pay up to $30.000 for a drip painting by Jackson Pollock) and have already stirred up interest abroad (some European collectors and gallery owners are now shopping in Manhattan for U.S. moderns). But this summer is the first time Europe has had a wholesale view of what the U.S. abstractionists have to offer. For the story...
...just any book will do, however. It must be seasonal in the same way a Christmas tie must be red and green. Cheerfulness, whimsy, and Good Will to All Men must drip from the cover and ooze from between the pages...
...Once upon a time there was a large-eared, drip-nosed fugitive from multiplication and Sunday school ... He lived in the Victorian, gabled, ginger-bready house of his maternal grandpa, a sea captain with a bushy mustache. This man's name was Edward Hall Adkins. The Negroes called him Cap'n Hawley and the white folks called him Ned Hall. Ned could shoot very fine and whittle very good and in his eyes a small boy was never never very wrong...