Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chess finals in Vienna were not the media-for-the-sake-of-media event that you seem to scorn. A few hundred journalists' witnessing for several millions of concerned Americans serves to reinforce the pressure of our presence among our public officials. That is not such a bad idea for potentially earth-shattering deliberations...
...envisioned the eye, he did not expect it to be of a storm. What he had in mind was hanging a huge canvas eye of Horus, symbol of the all-seeing Egyptian deity, from the top of San Francisco's 853-ft. pyramid-shaped Transamerica Building. "An artistic idea that could be comprehended on many levels," contended Stephen Goldstine, president of the San Francisco Art Institute, and an insightful way to mark the museum's King Tut exhibit...
Sellars' staging matches his conception of the rest of the play; that is, there's no idea behind it, only a fanatical desire not to do things conventionally. He uses scaffolds and shrubbery well, and borrows dark blue back-lighting and candles from his spring production of The Three Sisters at the Loeb. He also matches that production's inspired use of music. Burlesque is the basic style of David Reiffel's music for two, four, six, and even eight hands, and its use throughout does much to enliven the show...
Preventive surgery for breast cancer even before the disease is diagnosed? The idea sounds highly unpromising, but at least two surgeons are now performing such prophylactic mastectomies. Dr. Henry P. Leis Jr. of New York City limits the surgery to women who have already had one cancerous breast removed. In 17% of these patients, reports Medical World News, tissue examinations revealed undiagnosed cancer in the breast. Dr. Charles S. Rogers of Bay City, Mich., has taken the theory a step further by performing double mastectomies on women who had no apparent signs of the disease but were judged prone...
...project for a Monument to the Third International, 1920, which would have topped out at 1,400 ft., dwarfed the Eiffel Tower and given the U.S.S.R. the greatest industrial metaphor in the world, was a euphoric paean to the marriage of "objective" material-girders and glass-with dialectics The idea of a necessary link between the nature of modern art and the aims of socialism was everywhere. "Each part of a futurist picture," Natan Altman argued, "acquires meaning only through the interaction of all the other parts"; its task was not to depict, but to explain dialectical relationships. Illegible...