Word: floating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Lanyon, 43. Living in the harsh hills of Cornwall, Lanyon studies land and sea by foot, car and snorkel, but his passion is to float silently overhead in a red glider (see color). This leads him to probe in paint the mysteries of experience, to try to pinpoint man's place in nature, neither here (on the ground) nor there (in the air). "We must break that 18th century way of looking into the foreground," he insists. "Painting has to look behind its back...
...viewer has to enter in." Last week at a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan viewers could see how magic Greene's ambiguity has been. His unearthly colors intrigue-not so much as color, but as shifting shadings of darkness and light. His forms seem to float by like changing clouds of steam, twisting into shapes that are now recognizable, now wholly abstract...
...finish his dream house. A huge ranch house set on 25 acres, it is equipped with an electronic bar that mixes drinks to order ("I don't care for tending bar"), an elaborate intercom system (designed by Clint Jr.), and a swimming pool that could float the Queen Mary. He also owns Spanish Cay, an island in the Bahamas complete with private airstrip. A physical-culture faddist, Clint Jr. does 50 pushups, 50 knee bends and 50 situps every other day. He is too busy to do them daily...
...Astro-Spacemen decided that the patient could be floated much more delicately than that. In the first place, the weight of the board must be figured with the patient's, so the less that has to be added the better. The instrument makers hit upon an oversized bedboard made of an aluminum honeycomb, which weighs only 7 Ibs. To float patient and bedboard, they chose an air bearing of a type originally designed for instruments in missiles...
...issues go so fast? Partially because many new companies float a comparatively small amount of shares (usually 100,000 or less), which can be quickly driven up by even slight demand. New issues also have a built-in rising mechanism because underwriters insist that their offering price have some initial relation to earnings-when they have earnings-or be low enough to compete for investors. Thus, in a high-priced market, they bring them out at prices that look like bargains to many amateur investors. Adds Josephthal & Co.'s Sidney Lurie: "We all know it's ridiculous...