Word: geometricized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the current crisis, frustration and anger have brought federal officials and the states and localities into open warfare over welfare budgets. Leading examples: California and New York. Together, the two largest states have 3,000,000 people receiving aid and distribute almost 37% of the nation's welfare money...
Died. I. Rice Pereira, 63, noted abstractionist painter; in Marbella, Spain. She once described her style as a system that seeks "plastic equivalents for the revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and radioactivity." Her cool paintings were made up of carefully plotted blocks, lines and dashes in endless variations. She...
Cold Shower. Bridget Riley's paintings are nearly always made of such a formal unit-dot or stripe or ellipse-repeated and multiplied with tiny changes of position, tone or color. Through repetition, the force builds up. Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one...
Passengers switches the emphasis from movement to space. Viola Farber is concerned with space in the same way the Bauhaus was concerned with space-the content of the painting had become secondary to the handling of forms. But Farber has added the dimension of comedy by a contradiction of her...
Barthel's claim provoked some scholarly skepticism, even though the onetime Wehrmacht cryptographer has shown skill at cracking ancient linguistic codes. Fifteen years ago, Barthel reported deciphering the so-called "talking boards" of Easter Island in the South Pacific. The Inca mystery was every bit as challenging. But he...