Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the pieces of note is an untitled collection of stained glass rondels of different colors by Claire Steinert. Marion Kofman shows a plexiglass work called "Reflective Images" which forms fascinating patterns on the mirror below it. The Dorothy Gray wood constructions called "Timeline I and II" are interesting because Gray uses pieces of bedposts, stair railings and mirrors to show progression through time. The unusual Medium Award for the week goes to Patricia Verant for her sculpture of a giraffe made with epoxy glue and coconut shells...
...polluted skies of Boston, in the town of Harvard, Mass. The equipment at HCO's station includes a large, optical telescope and a radiotelescope--a movable disk 84 feet across for receiving radio waves from sources in deep space. A reflecting telescope composed of six 72-inch-diameter mirrors should go into operation at SAO's Arizona station this summer, although in Fall 1975 completion of construction was expected by Fall 1976. The six mirrors, focused together by computer, will equal the light-gathering capacity of a 176-inch reflector--second in size only to the 200-inch reflector...
While observers at the multi-mirror telescope in Arizona will study the ends of the visible universe, Alan Lightman, assistant professor of Astronomy, is now reaching for knowledge out at the brink of the unknowable. In his carpeted nine-by-twelve office, Lightman is doing theoretical studies of star patterns adjacent to black holes. Existing instruments cannot observe these patterns...
...model of silky noncooperation, Lily answers with a question of her own: "What does a chameleon see when it looks into a mirror...
Says Jane Wagner, her friend and collaborator: "I don't know how she takes on the personalities of these characters. I've never seen her rehearse to get them, or stand in front of a mirror experimenting. She just gets up and does them. It's a comedic possession, but maybe demonic possession is just around the bend...