Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Balancing Dissonance. The reason, perhaps, was that Vuillard never probed his sitter's secrets. As if telling too much about his subjects might embarrass them, he set them in surroundings they loved and gave both equal weight in the painting. Harmony was his aim. His success in balancing dissonant colors is demonstrated in the blending of 20 or more patterns in The Music Recital...
...champions of equal rights for women cavil. In 1964, granddaughters of the original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...
...employing electronic means to explore the mysteries of the earth's sister planet. Using radio beams, Radar Astronomers Richard M. Goldstein and Shalhav Zohar of Caltech's Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory reported last week that they have mapped 160,000 sq. mi. of Venus, an area about equal to the size of the entire U.S. Northeast...
...geniuses when we dream, the butcher the poet's equal there...
Constructivism began in Russia as a spidery brand of pure and formal abstraction. Some proclaim Naum Gabo as its founder; some argue that his brother, Antoine Pevsner, has an equal claim; and some urge the case of Painter Kasimir Malevich. Now Stockholm's Modern Museum has mounted an exhibit of paintings, photographs and models designed to show that Vladimir Tallin (1885-1953) was the most constructive constructivist...