Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wind-Whipped Icicle. Among the recognized leaders is Los Angeles' Larry Bell, 28, who began evolving his coolly opalescent glass boxes five years ago after an early career in painting evoked "a gnawing frustration with two-dimensional form." To portray light and color in a Platonically pure and idealized fashion, he began painting glass cubes with abstract designs, found that the paler his colors became, the more easily spectators were able to ignore his boxes as objects, enjoy them instead for what they did to light. The technology behind Bell's boxes is highly sophisticated, but he dismisses...
...mechanism was triggered by a series of hidden photoelectric cells paired with infra-red light projectors, which together created an invisible light grid. The cells were located directly beneath the light bulbs; when the viewer's body intercepted an infra-red light beam, the cell triggered a relay switch to the bulbs above. Haacke's Photoelectric Viewer Programmed Coordinate System furnished little to look at, but lots to ponder at the coffee shops. Does a tree make a noise when it falls in the forest if nobody is there to hear it? Does a work of art cease...
...skiing turn into advice on how to snag a skier. "You're standing on the left line next to a slim-hipped Nordic god. You produce a cigarette. He's got to be interested if he removes his gloves in arctic weather and delves through pockets to light you up." Even archaeological expeditions are happy hunting grounds. "One night, wild and high," reports a girl who joined a dig in Greece, "we danced Zorbalike steps to records and formed amorous twosomes that lasted until dawn...
...China are exchanging ultimatums. The world is on the brink of a nuclear Armageddon. Then Scientist Maximilian Gaby's radio telescope picks up a message from outer space. It reveals that a highly intelligent race exists on an earthlike planet circling Cassiopeia 3579, a star some 30 light-years away. What's more, the folks up yonder are eager to communicate...
Taiwan was the showcase for this approach. After American aid provided the foundations for a steel industry and light manufacture, Taiwan competed successfully in the Asian market and became, in the late fifties, the first country made economically independent by foreign aid. Following this initial triumph the program was widely applied in other underdeveloped countries...