Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MEDIUM COOL is the most impassioned and impressive film released so far this year.Writer-Director-Cinematographer Haskell Wexler's loose narrative about a TV cameraman during last summer's Chicago convention fuses documentary and narrative techniques into a vivid portrait of a nation in conflict...
...Peking has an estimated 100 nuclear devices, including hydrogen bombs, but it is only now developing and testing the medium-range missiles needed to deliver them. Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun reported that the Chinese had conducted an underground nuclear test early last week; the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had no comment...
...that passage, James Baldwin gives one reason why he came to hate and fear white people. He looked at their art as into a mirror, and could not see himself there at all. In the "disastrously explicit medium of language" that he uses so well, Baldwin adds a yet icier thought: "This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possibly because they failed to produce Rembrandt...
...many, but some. Seeking them out, Author-Critic Alexander Eliot culled the great collections of Europe and the U.S. to assemble the remarkable gallery that TIME presents on the following pages. All of the pictures are white mirrors, since oil paint was never the Negro's traditional medium: the promise of black Rembrandts lay in other fields. But all of them reflect the unprejudiced eye that saw beauty could appear in any color...
...most articulate theoretician of the op movement and longtime believer that art should be not merely a luxury for the rich but available to everyone (or almost everyone). Since Vasarely's paintings fetch upward of $16,000, the obvious way to cut costs was to mass-produce the medium and let the purchaser do the work. Once he hit upon the idea of using movable plastic units, Vasarely applied the fundamental idiom of his paintings-geometry and color. All pieces are snugly interlocking circles and squares and come in 19 carefully chosen, generally compatible shades. A small suction...