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When he got back to California, he began to apply those lessons to his famous studies of nautilus shells and vegetables, using four-hour exposures to draw in every crevice and gleam of some resounding larger form. These pictures were a watershed for Weston. The pictorialists used soft focus for atmospheric purposes but also as a way to make the particular stand for the general. With these radiant close-ups, Weston kept their goal but reversed the approach, bearing down on the details as a new way to make the mundane suggest the divine. At first glance, the scientific exactness...
...Promenade des Anglais) as a light-filled box, full of reflections, transparencies and openings. Shutters filter the light, and their bars are echoed in the stripes of awnings or rugs; light is doubled by mirrors that break open the space of the room, and discreetly splintered in the gleam from silk, pewter or furniture...
With a certain youthful gleam in his eye, the Cardinal continued his story saying that his professor's immutable stance in this instance sparked him to organize what was probably the first sit-in demonstration at Harvard. Students camped out in front of the professor's door to expose his closed-mindedness and to demand that he at least listen to a tape of Day's speech so that he might objectively determine if his previously-held notions were indeed justified...
...most daunting challenges that the U.S. aerospace industry has faced since it helped put astronauts on the moon. Lockheed, Boeing and Rockwell have all been working on the conceptual designs for a space plane. At the moment, says one industry consultant, "it's just a gleam in everyone's eye." But what a gleam: the plane would take off on a conventional runway and fly into orbit like a rocket. It could launch satellites, much as the space shuttle has done, or it could simply whisk U.S. passengers from coast to coast in twelve minutes. Such staggering speed would only...
...have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn't one to sound off on his own," said a friend, Bill Almon of Yakima, Wash. But once the conversation turned to space, Almon added, "you could see the gleam in his eye, and he would want to talk about...