Word: evens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Green is such a calming color that many school walls are painted "educational green" to reduce the restlessness of students. Now educational green may have to yield to an even more soothing tint: "jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that...
...friend in 1950: "I am myself-not just the sum of my ancestors, and I know myself best by my gestures, meanings...not through a study of my family tree." To a great extent he succeeded. Virtually no modernist paintings done before 1945 look like his work, and even the influence of surrealism, a vital catalyst for Pollock and Rothko, is less apparent in Still than anywhere else in abstract expressionism. Instead of going by fits and starts, testing and absorbing other art, Still's career gives the impression of monolithic solidity: he found his style early and stuck...
...dazzling display, showing surprising creativity and craftsmanship and ranging from ornamental hanging jewelry to funeral masks, from little musical bells to such utilitarian objects as fishhooks and decorated tweezers. There are even miniature urns for holding the lime that the Indians mixed with coca leaves (to enhance their euphoric powers...
Like the miners of the Klondike, the ancient artisans obtained much of their gold by panning. They also dug shafts into the ground and even set fire to hillsides to expose the gold-bearing soil. Smelting was done in small clay crucibles. Some objects, like the breastplates made in the Calima region of southwestern Colombia, were hammered into shape on stone anvils with instruments made of iron found in meteorites. To prevent the gold from becoming brittle and breaking while it was being worked, the goldsmiths annealed it-heating it and quenching it rapidly in water. For joining different pieces...
Respect for the glowing handiwork of the Colombian Indians extends beyond the museums and the museumgoers of Colombia and the U.S. Even the guaqueros, who in the past would melt down these treasures, have come to recognize that an ancient art object may be worth more than its weight in gold...