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...Dadaists sought new modes of expression that would make art relevant to life. Taking this idea literally, they introduced everyday objects and materials into art. Duchamp created "readymade" sculptures using old urinals, bicycles and other assorted junk. Kurt Schwitters invented the term "merz" for his art, defined as a "fusion of all conceivable materials for artistic purposes." Collage and photomontage became chief modes of expression...
...missiles launched by railguns would not leave fiery, polluting exhausts detectable by satellite. In a forthcoming issue, Physics Today reports that some scientists think that railguns, firing a stream of high-velocity particles at a target of deuterium and tritium, may offer the best way yet of achieving controlled fusion, a key energy hope for the future. Perhaps the most far-reaching application involves the space colonization ideas of Princeton Physicist Gerard O'Neill. He and some colleagues at M.I.T. are already building models of kindred electromagnetic launchers that they believe could be assembled on the moon and used...
...ultimate melody came to a sad end--Byrne and Eno take note. How far they will continue to search for it in the bush, like a musical Stanley and Livingston, will largely be determined by the reaction to this album and how well they can duplicate the funk/permanent wave fusion in concert. Byrne was able to toss aside his carefree/paranoid psycho image in one album and can abandon this turn just as easily. What will the '81 Talking Heads approach be: guitars, synthesizers or David Byrne beating out a polyrhythm on a hollowed...
...teachers and Ph.D.s comes at a time when society is dependent as never before upon engineers to devise energy-saving designs in such areas as solar energy and synthetic fuels. "All the scientific information about solar energy is known," says Dean Charles Sanders of California State University-Northridge. "Fusion is scientifically understood. But you need engineers to build these things." The shortage of both engineering Ph.D.s and expert faculty arises from a booming industrial technology that has created a record demand for young engineers and pushed undergraduate enrollments in the field to an all-time high of 340,488. Today...
...space itself, she did not want to compete with the existing architecture. Hence the sculpture's somewhat ungainly appearance; in scale (over 20 feet high) and in the vocabulary of its forms (steps, platforms, walkways), the piece seems to conform to an architectural setting. Yet Miss prohibits this fusion of art and environment. The piece is asymmetrical; its axis runs perpendicular to the entranceway of the museum, and the horizontal elements are not aligned with those of the building. The sculpture strains toward an awkward autonology further accentuated by the contrast between its stick like construction and the stone interior...