Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Salem people packed their belongings and fled for high ground. Elsewhere in the state, people were drowned as their cars washed over fallen bridges or were electrocuted by torn power lines. At Reedsport, a railroad bridge across the Umpqua River was opened for a three-story house which floated out into the Pacific Ocean -the fourth house to float by. In Idaho, snow slides and rising water cut off village after village in the southern part of the state, necessitating rescue work by helicopter. In Central Idaho, a bulldozer operator, pushing toward ten stranded cars containing 50 people, died...
...heard her could forget her. Wanda Landowska saw to that. A tiny black-clad priestess, palms pressed together in prayer, she would float in hushed silence to her altar, the harpsichord. A Romantic who played pre-Romantic music, she got shadings and majestic effects seemingly impossible on her instrument, and no one could equal her in bringing to independent life Bach's intertwined melodies. She took great liberties in interpretation, serenely confident of the backing of the dead composer. "You continue to play Bach your way," she told one musician. "I shall continue to play Bach his way. What...
...pervading, almost universal effect is incredibly intensified perception. This may be pleasurable or not, depending on the individual's emotional state. Most people seem to float, and often to be outside themselves, so that they are really two selves. A common feeling is that there is "a little bit of death" in the LSD experience, but usually it is not frightening because the subject is dissociated from himself and can observe the situation dispassionately...
Featured here are his color lithographs of 1961-1963, nine of which represent single figures in various stages of confusion with the world. The tenth is an excellent piece, Loisirs, where two living bodies float over a landscape. It is apparent from the briefest description that this artist's main concern is the bewilderment of modern man. Dubuffet believes that his images are truly realistic, and that prettier views are insane (a term which some critics have applied to him). His art is unique, both in its imagination and in the technical skills he brings...
Once its target is located, a Skyhook rescue plane sends a 400-lb., do-it-yourself kit drifting downward by parachute. The bulky package, which is buoyant enough to float if it lands on water, contains a cylinder filled with helium and 500 ft. of woven nylon line with a special suit attached to one end, a balloon to the other. The man to be rescued must be in good enough physical shape to do a few simple things: put on the suit and inflate the balloon with helium. Once the big bag rises to the full length...