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...première segment dealt with the words bull and fly. The visuals ran rapidly through the various kinds of "bull"-bullfrog, bully, Bull Moose Party, rodeo bull, bulldogs. "That is a lot of bull," Chapin remarked inevitably. The segment on flying managed to trace that activity from Icarus to the 747 via Superman...
Both Piper and Cornelius belong to a flock of Britons fascinated by the dream of man-powered flight and undeterred by a fearsome failure rate that goes back to Icarus. At Selsey Bill, Sussex, this month, twelve birdmen gathered to contend for a $2,400 prize offered by the local Royal Air Force Association to the first man to fly 50 yards under his own power. Some 6,000 turned up to watch contestants take off from a 25-ft.-high platform at the end of a lifeboat jetty. No one was injured, but the splashdowns rivaled...
Writing in the planetary-science journal Icarus, Scientists William Streett, Harry Ringermacher and George Veronis contend that the Red Spot is caused by a huge solid chunk of hydrogen afloat in a sea of gases in Jupiter's atmosphere. How could a solid float in gases? The authors explain that the phenomenon becomes possible when certain mixtures of gases are subjected to high enough pressures. As one of the gases in the mix becomes liquefied and then begins to solidify under increasing pressure, a peculiar reversal takes place: the solidifying mass-like water turning into ice-becomes lighter...
...continuity of values preserved. This is what society is about, and it provides order and sustenance for the vast community of men and women who cannot fly, breathe, or even live in the ego-rarefied air of the master artists and the lone eagles. Daedalus flew but Icarus fell-so it is with Ibsen and his Nora...
...paintings, their sign language and visual shorthand. His imagination was fenced with ironies and ambiguities. The grand manner had no place in it. An early etching, Hero with a Wing, 1905, is typical. It belongs to the sardonic world of absurd theater-a parody of a classical statue, failed Icarus with a broken arm and a wooden leg, brandishing his one frayed wing like a plucked and grumpy rooster. Other artists of Klee's time, a Bonnard or a Matisse, could and did summon up with a few brush strokes a whole universe of specific experiences-the golden, fuzzy...