Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrealism could not satisfy Dominguez long. He oscillated between it and abstract art, produced cobwebby abstractions with surrealistic explanations. "Imagine any tridimensional body," he suggested, "an African lion, for instance. If we consider the whole formed by every point of the lion at every instant and in every position, and if we draw the enveloping surface, we obtain an enveloping super-lion with very delicately graded characteristics." His friends could never be sure whether or not Dominguez knew his theories were nonsense, but they could be sure he did not care. When asked to think out his conclusions, Dominguez amiably...
Documentation. In Topeka, Kans., an instant after a bill was introduced in the house of representatives calling for examination and licensing of electrical contractors and workers, the chamber lights went...
...working with other local stations. Cleveland's WEWS drew one of its biggest audiences with an hour-long telecast of Menotti's opera, The Medium, staged by the famed Karamu Players. When a strike closed city schools, Minneapolis put classes on the air, was staggered by their instant popularity (TIME...
...Lythe, England. When the presiding Archbishop of York reached the point of asking if anyone had "just cause" for objection, 300 wedding guests were startled when a pale little man jumped up and cried, "Yes, I have, my Lord Archbishop." His Grace paused and looked up for an instant at Thomas Trueman, 45, who believes he has some claim to the bridegroom's Normanby title and estates. But the archbishop gave Mr. Trueman no opportunity to state his objections, and the little man retired dourly to the rear of the church...
Airline Pilot Russell Bidulph, flying a C-47 from Port Moresby to Lae, looked down on Lamington. Said Bidulph later: "It seemed to cough, and in an instant there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...