Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world, has been embarrassed in recent years by a technology that lags far behind the U.S. and much of Europe. Among the notable exceptions to this lack of inventive spirit is a 138-year-old firm named Pilkington Brothers Ltd., Britain's largest glassmaker. Pilkington's new "float glass" process has not only brought dramatic change to an ancient industry but restored some glitter to Britain's industrial reputation. Last week Pilkington completed a licensing agreement that allows Ford Motor to produce float glass for its autos, a move that may lead to widespread...
...Fall out of a hydroplane or a chaise longue and what do you do? Inflate an Aqua Aid, worn on the wrist or on the waist in a tiny packet and available to the prudent for only $4.95. It will float a man in prime condition for several lonely hours...
Will the weight of envious mediocrities and malevolent mischance bring Stamper down, or will he be able to float his log booms down the river in time to meet his contract? The question sounds like rank melodrama, but it is not; Author Kesey's novel is big and clumsy, but its questions matter very much...
...From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others. And outside the pavilion, the "Flying Eagles of Papantla" scale a 114-ft. pole four times a day and float back down to earth...
Sculpture must defy gravity, says Alberto Collie, and by using magnets he performs feats of levitation with objects made of aluminum, copper and magnesium. Though Collie's magnetized sculptures do not soar with full air borne freedom, they do hover and float* above their pedestals, attached by almost imperceptible nylon strings. The effect is playful and magical-rather like Collie himself, who combines the hot-eyed zeal of a young Merlin with the twinkle-eyed grin of a boy with a toy. Collie, 25, calls his works spatial-absolutes: spatial because they are floating in space, absolute because...