Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name is mentioned, most architects chuckle indulgently; a few reverently bow their heads. Sparkling "Bucky" Fuller, a rotund little man who looks more businesslike than he is, long ago startled the U.S. with designs for three-wheeled, tear-shaped cars and pear-shaped "Dymaxion" houses hung from metal masts, but he never succeeded in convincing investors that his ideas were adaptable to mass production - the only kind that interests him. At 54, Bucky confesses without a smile that his one purpose is still to house "the 800 million people now alive who will at one time or another...
...became "the greatest primitive of our modern industrial age." A retrospective show which Cassou's museum was staging last week proved the point. With the few elements Leger allowed himself-poster colors and shapes that looked as if they had been stamped out of sheet metal " -he made just what he had in mind: paintings such as Disks in the City that were loud, bold, intricate and fierce as fire engines...
...after unsuccessful tests with muscle tissue, cellophane, and finally metal bone-end coverings, the doctors tried nylon. In the 20 knee operations they have performed with nylon wrap-ups (called arthroplasty), every patient was able to walk again within three weeks. Only one failed to regain painless knee movement (because of a faulty blood supply, rather than any fault in the operation). Of the 19 others, ten have fully regained "normal range of motion...
...routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...
...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...