Word: loom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the tests that followed are just vaguely familiar names now, but they loom large in the memories of the weary scientists, including Ogle, who sweated them out. There was Ranger at Frenchman Flat near Las Vegas, Greenhouse at Eniwetok, Buster-Jangle and Tumbler-Snapper. With Ivy in November 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was exploded, wiping out the tiny island of Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive...
Back at the Ranch. The West Side apartment of Textile Manufacturer Benjamin Heller strikes some as an art gallery with a bed. Huge paintings by Pollock, Rothko. Newman and other abstractionists, as well as Greek and African sculptures and pre-Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around...
...column said Myerson's "attitudes and impulses are essentially those of a warm-hearted fellow-traveler of the 1930's intensified by nuclear weapons . . . He knows all the frailties and problems of his own country, and they somehow loom larger than the total oppression of Soviet rule...
...Throb. Nonetheless, problems loom for A.M.C. One of the new management's first chores will be to find a replacement for Sales Vice President Virgil E. Boyd, 49, who was lured to Chrysler Corp. as vice president and general sales manager last week by a "tremendous offer I just couldn't afford to refuse." A.M.C. earnings fell from $48 million in 1960 to $23.6 million last year as spending on production facilities and merchandising was hiked to meet stiffening competition from Big3 compacts. Wall Street analysts are generally bearish about prospects for continued A.M.C. growth. Rambler, they reason...
...paintings at Knoedler's trace Van Velde's grim road. Gaunt figures loom in his early paintings, but in his later work they begin to decompose, and finally the portraits are hidden behind impenetrable strokescreens in which forms flow free of nature and colors are free of form. The colors slosh about in swoops and swirls; the paintings seem as gay as bunting...