Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chosen, blown up into black-and-white prints, and then transferred to silkscreens; he treated the final image with colored inks and paints, including splotches of bloodlike watercolor. Altogether, he made nine montages before the editors made their final choice. Though such characters as Bonnie and Clyde are not familiar images in Rauschenberg's art, his technique on TIME'S cover is. It will be immediately identified as a "Rauschenberg" by those who know his work from museums and art galleries around the world...
...lucky enough to get a new set of golf clubs for Christmas-clubs with aluminum shafts. Like the steel tennis racket, the aluminum-shafted golf club is being touted as a breakthrough of science. For 15 years, club manufacturers have been trying unsuccessfully to improve on the now-familiar stepped steel shafts that replaced hickory in the 1920s. Fiber-glass shafts, for instance, are whippier than steel, but their extreme flexibility only tends to exaggerate flaws in a golfer's swing. Aluminum is more rigid than fiber glass, and lighter than steel. The lighter shaft allows manufacturers...
Inside Bach. If any message surfaces from Columbia's far-out stockpile, it is simply that today's musical world spins through healthy confusion. While some composers have chosen to cut themselves off from the familiar sounds of instruments in favor of microphones and amplifiers, others-Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller and the Russian Edison Denisov-find within orchestral resources the means for flying just as high. Denisov, the first composer from the recently surfaced Russian avant-garde to find his way to records, builds his six-minute Crescendo e Diminuendo by offering the conductor a series of short...
Like ancient mariners, astronauts exploring the solar system will navigate by the stars. But when man finally ventures to the stars themselves, says NASA Mathematician and Physicist Saul Moskowitz in a Sky and Telescope article, navigation will become more of a problem. In place of the familiar and steadfast constellations he has learned to rely on, the star traveler will encounter a mystifying and spectacularly changing sky in which stars move, change color, brighten, disappear, and magically cluster together in front...
...Blue. Not surprisingly, as Moskowitz's imaginary ship moved far beyond the solar system, the appearance of the sky began to change. As the ship approached them, the nearer stars began to shift their positions in familiar constellations, eventually disappearing from forward view as the spacecraft passed them. More distant stars remained in relatively fixed positions. In the view from the rear, the sun faded from sight as the craft flew beyond a distance of 30 light-years from the solar system, while 45 Eridani loomed ever larger ahead...