Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perfectly frank sexuality. A little heartless, maybe, a little unemotional, but no trickery, no "feminine wiles," no bangles and baubles. That's why she upsets European men so much: she doesn't keep in her place. They can't ravish her. She meets them on their own ground...
...past 40 years, Giacometti has ground away at man in his gritty, plaster-spattered Montparnasse studio in Paris. His sooty potbellied stove still rusts away in a corner amid a welter of palette knives; the unpainted walls are covered with scribbly sketches, around which some ornate frames hang randomly like lustrous afterthoughts. This is his laboratory for capturing reality. To it come such models as his brother Diego, who makes furniture in bronze, and his wife Annette, to pose for motionless hours. For each session, they must return to the exact posture that Giacometti wishes; he ensures this by placing...
...reproduce a head exactly as I see it," says the sculptor, "I would have everything else. If I could capture the ridge of the nos.e and the eyes, I would already be down to the neck. Then down to the feet is nothing. Under the feet you have the ground, and you can put anything you want to on the ground. But then again, I suppose, once you have the eye, you have everything, so you might as well stop. Anyway, I know with absolute, unshakable certainty that I can never succeed, even if I live to be a thousand...
...ways for the best horse to lose. He can get caught in a "blind switch"-boxed in by opponents' sulkies. He may be startled by the flick of the whip into "breaking"-going off stride. He can be "hung" wide on the turns and lose too much ground to make up. Or he may simply draw an impossible post position-far on the outside, or in the second...
...that finds its way into the 20-ft. horn antennas at Holmdel, N.J., that Bell built for talking to the Telstar communication satellite. At the microwave frequency the horn was tuned to, 4080 megacycles, radio waves from the stars and galaxies were all but undetectable, and tests with a ground transmitter proved that waves from the earth's surface could be disregarded. Still, signals were coming in. What was their origin...