Word: glares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles, Venus would be a crescent twice as high as the crescent moon. Because of its high reflectivity and nearness to the sun, it would be much brighter than any moon. As Mariner II swept nearer, its rider would have seen the crescent, growing and thickening, its glare waxing blindingly bright, until it was 35 times the diameter of the full moon as seen from the earth and more than 13,000 times as brilliant...
Better lighting was requested by 57 per cent of the students; the major objections to the present systems were dimness, noise, glare, "depressing glow." To remedy these problems the HUCA suggested the use of table flickers as a practical light fixture...
...model, a kind of compact copter, has a cruising speed of 70 m.p.h., a maximum speed of 86 m.p.h., a range of 200 miles and an endurance of three hours in the air. Special effects include a 360° visibility, a tinted canopy to protect against sun glare, and air-oil shock-absorbing landing skids that "smooth out" the roughest terrain. It is also economical-13? a mile by Hughes's estimate. With 53 dealers already signed up and expectations of many more, Hughes has stepped up production to one copter a day, confident the idea will soon catch...
...there, transformed into a subtle geometry that partially conceals their identity but thereby achieves what Knaths is after-"mood and wonder." Knaths never goes in for dramatics. His colors are muted, do not dazzle. He can catch the orange glory of dawn, but he is not interested in the glare of high noon. He suggests the movement inherent in even the still life, but shuns swift outward action. Rather than a storm at sea, he prefers to paint the glistening emptiness of the time when the tide has run out. There is activity in a Knaths painting...
...bought my '55 car (one of the Big Three), resplendent in chromium and sea-mist green, I covered the shiny part of the steering wheel with masking tape and painted the wiper arms flat black. A friend told me how to use wet sandpaper to eliminate the glare from the hood over the instrument panel...