Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
...their followers that the world rests on the back of a monstrous frog whose every muscle twitch causes a temblor. Natives of Mozambique logically decided that their quake of 1891 was just a case of global chills & fever. Scientists now believe that the earth's crust is a mosaic of big, loose blocks that roll and toss every time they are jarred out of line. San Francisco is close to a "fault" between two such blocks. But most earthquakes are relatively harmless: the earth has at least 50,000 a year, which keep seismographs constantly jittery...
...more than one such masterpiece, creations not only of his own genius but also of the age and place in which he lived. While Baldovinetti labored in Florence, and Luini in Milan, Bellini breathed the glittering, clear splendor of Venice, which lay like a wide galleon of marble and mosaic moored to the Adriatic shore. Bellini's father, brother and brother-in-law (Mantegna) were all famed painters, who brilliantly adapted and modified in varying degrees the jewel-hard Byzantine art which trade with the East had brought to Venice. Giovanni Bellini did more; he created a new kind...
...doubt of it, a memorable thing to have, at one heave of the pick, dug out the entire psychological mosaic of this perfect, almost, book; and no less memorable, in a filmic way, to have- senza cerimonia, as it were-substituted a pleasant, if rather extended charade. Though the need for the substitution remains obscure...
Viruses, said Stanley, are too small to be seen with ordinary microscopes; but electron microscopes show them plainly. The tobacco mosaic virus, for instance, is a slender rod. The rods affect one another at a distance as if they were tiny bar-magnets. This "long-range force," still unexplained, may prove the key to many deep life mysteries...