Word: loft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo wanted people to look up to his art. He painted his most famous work on ceilings. Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs. His specialty, naturally, was clouds, and his best work adorns sundry ceilings from Madrid's royal palace to Wurzburg's bishop's Residenz. Last week Tiepolo unexpectedly raised the roofs in London...
Returning to Manhattan loft life, Rauschenberg scoured the streets and junk shops for objects to add to his paintings. Stuffed roosters, pillows, Coke bottles, clocks and a telephone book popped out in his work. He even made his bed into a painting; having run out of canvas, he decided to paint on his quilt. "I just couldn't get the paint to overcome the geometric patterns of the quilt," explains the artist. "I decided I've got to admit it's a quilt." One admission led to another, so he added his pillow, and then some sheets...
Back to School. High school courses in driving and traffic have been a solid success, argues Loft: boys and girls who have taken them are involved in 50% fewer violations and accidents than those who have not. "With teen-agers," he says, "the biggest problem is attitude, lack of maturity and judgment, not skill. But with senior citizens, maturity, judgment and attitude for the most part are extremely good. They need help in developing confidence, and they have to be taught their weaknesses and how to compensate for them...
Last month Loft began a training program for 14 women and five men between the ages of 56 and 75 who volunteered in response to a newspaper story. Each trainee received two 45 minute periods of driving instruction per week with a graduate student in Professor Loft's department, as well as a two-hour classroom session. The first classroom session was devoted to tests of visual acuity, including distance judgment, reaction time, ability to distinguish colors, see in the dark and recover from headlight glare. The remaining classroom sessions included handling the buttons and levers, everyday driving maneuvers...
Lock the Doors. Graduates of Loft's first course seemed to feel that their time was well spent. Miss Elizabeth Means, 75, has been driving since 1923, but after all these years says that "backing worried me. Now I feel I have the right technique." And Henry C. Gray, 69, a retired mechanical engineer, who estimates that he has driven about 400,000 miles, discovered that his night vision is poor and he should do as little night driving as possible...