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...nibble away about 1¼ sq. in. of its skin per day. Eventually the sphere may collapse, pushed to a pancake by air drag and pressure of sunlight, or drawn together by the Mylar's "memory" of the way it was folded in the launching rocket. But a flattish or crumpled shape may continue to serve for years as a good radio reflector, which is the basic job that Echo was sent up to perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...long, 5 ft. in diameter, and made of 200 Ibs. of strong nylon fabric and about a ton of synthetic rubber. Partially filled to keep the skin relaxed, it carries 10,000 gallons of fluid and slips through the water like a boneless whale with a flattish top 18 in. above the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sausages of Oil | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...dollhouse in collapse, to part with their illusions. The demonstration rings true, but Playwright Lawler has really had to take the audience by the hand and lead it up to the truth; somehow it has not the weight of the play behind it. Too many earlier scenes were flattish, too much writing was prosy; nowhere did 17 years leap out in a sudden glance, or a lifetime emerge in a comment. The play makes soberly clear the sad human arithmetic that twice two is four, and that mankind would make it five. What is beyond it is the magical creative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...World One Knows. In the same tradition, Sculptor Aristide Maillol's woodcuts for a 1924 edition of Virgil's Eclogues reduce the human figure to a flattish, quietly harmonious arrangement of ink lines, yet retain the emotive power of illustration. The observer automatically identifies himself with Maillol's figures; looking at the illustrations, he moves in a world he knows. Villon's new illustrations to the same cycle of poems (see below) employ color and perspective to create an even more recognizable, i.e., convincing, world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing Is Believing | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...would hold twice as large a congregation. Architect Gsaenger's proposal: a stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have a flattish, gently undulating roof, and a square, 197-foot tower topped with a slim cross. Inside, Architect Gsaenger plans to erect movable steel and glass partitions, separating the church proper from an adjoining community center seating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modern St. Matthew's | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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