Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works as "haunted, like the shining skin of an opulent eggplant, by the clay-colored echo of a final and unbreakable promise." The point, as Louis Armstrong once said of jazz, seems to be: "When you got to ask what it is, you'll never get to know...
...Picasso. They were searching for something new, not as a school, but as individuals following nearby paths in the same wood. Some are still searching. "It's not that I'm against anything," says De Kooning, "but I'm more for myself. I don't know who I am, but I am not THEM any more...
Empty or Vital? The seekers merged as a group in 1948, when they formed "The Club" for artists only, met in a loft in Greenwich Village, debated: "What is abstract art in the good sense?'' "How do you know when a work is finished?" "Why put a title on a painting?" Though no agreement was reached, each artist found his canvas recording a battle royal in which the brush strokes, drippings and splatter were visual records of his ordeal...
...space with a double task firmly impressed on its electronic senses. It must report on the belt of radiation, probably particles from the sun, that was found by Explorer III about 600 miles above the earth's surface. And it must tell U.S. scientists more than they yet know about cosmic rays...
...time being, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be content with a 12,500-kw. generator, but much more steam may be available. Wells drilled 30 years ago and abandoned as uneconomic have been spouting steam ever since with no loss of pressure. "Neither we nor anyone else," says McCabe, "know whether we are looking at an area that will produce 50,000 or 5,000,000 kilowatts...