Word: euclideanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past 50 years. But the suggestive mood pervades all his work except the landscapes. To encounter it in the mellowed and reduced form of Katia Reading, 1970-76, is still faintly disturbing-as if one of the figures in Seurat's Grande Jatte had turned from its Euclidean stillness and made a gesture of invitation. In terms of formal arrangement, it would be hard to imagine a more organized image than this: the chair could not be shifted an inch, or the angle of the girl's legs a degree, without some loss. But it is also...
...figures in assessing world oil potential: proven reserves and possible, or probable, reserves. Proven reserves are figured by many oil geologists at 640 billion bbl., almost a 30-year supply at current consumption rates-but despite the name they are scarcely "proven" in the sense that a proposition in Euclidean geometry is; they are really only estimates based on the best available evidence. To determine proven reserves, geologists study earth strata by drilling for rock and fluid samplings. Often calculations predict probable output by comparing it with production from similar fields already in operation. Trouble is, real output seldom matches...
...directors. Kubrick picked perhaps the only subject which could sustain such extended self-conscious artistry; for once the medium was the message, and by following the shifts of shapes and the repetition of frames and camera movements, you experienced the space flight growth of non-Newtonian physics and non-Euclidean geometry. Despite Kubrick's avowed Platonism, his contention that man is moving away from a biological condition, the guts of the film remained subversively satiric. These astronauts weren't heroes, but celestial teamsters...