Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arizona mostly to soothe a severe case of arthritis. Yet his parched art now appears as if it were formed solely in the spread-eagle landscape, the quartz-clear air, and the human isolation of a land where nature seems with out scale. The figures in his paintings float like mirages, their pinpoint eyes sad as those of pedestrians in hell...
PETER LANYON-Viviano, 42 East 57th. "If you go to St. Ives you will notice the blue," says Lanyon of his English birthplace and home, and if you go to see his paintings you will too. Lanyon likes to float low in his glider, a vantage point that wins him curious perspectives: Lake looks like a rubber life raft filled with water, North East seems to offer a view right through a terrace table, and Spring Coast is a maze of curves and curlicues in phosphorescent green and fresh red. Through...
...value of the vacuum to industry lies in the fact that materials act differently when not surrounded by air than they do when surrounded by it. In a vacuum, atoms of gas in any material float away because they are unobstructed by air pressure. Last week U.S. Steel announced that it will build a giant vacuum "degasser," similar to one already at Jones & Laughlin, that releases contaminating gases from hundreds of tons of molten steel in minutes. Result: steel with so few harmful impurities that castings made from it for automobiles last 25% longer...
Rocks for N.A.A.C.P. The adverse reaction is all too visible. In a Boston St. Patrick's Day parade, an N.A.A.C.P. float bearing the slogan, FROM THE FIGHT FOR IRISH FREEDOM TO THE FIGHT FOR U.S. EQUALITY, was pelted with rocks, eggs, beer cans and vegetables. When Roman Catholic pastors in Michigan read from their pulpits a pro-civil rights statement, members of a Catholic Laymen's League stood outside the doors of 52 churches, passed out some 100,000 leaflets denouncing the civil rights bill...
...place is full of jaunty poltergeists. Whenever the phone rings, the TV set changes channels. There are only two books in sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied...