Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work to remedy the defects at hand; as editor of the campus paper, the Daily Texan, he crusaded against the state's sacrosanct oil-and-gas industry, berating it for taking too much out of the state and putting too little back in. In the uproar that ensued, complete with suppression of his editorials, Willie became something of a local celebrity...
Thus far, Metherell has successfully taken black and white sound pictures of a model submarine, a model aircraft carrier, an airplane silhouette, the letter R and various geometric shapes. Using low frequencies, acoustical holography could explore for oil and mineral deposits at depths of several miles. Archaeologists could use higher frequencies to search for buried cities. Oceanographers may well map the ocean floor in the same way. And at frequencies between 1 and 10 megacycles, diagnostic holograms may some day chart not only tumors, but soft areas of the body-such as muscles, blood vessels and brain tissue-that...
Died. Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 67, past chairman of Alcoa aluminum; after a stroke; in Philadelphia. During a 40-year career with the nation's largest aluminum producer, he tramped African jungles, struck oil in Texas and saw sales top $1 billion...
...Whiteley stop there. Above his self-portrait erupt five flat thought balloons, containing a photo of a nude torso, a tube of oozing white oil paint, a fungoid dream landscape with a bit of highway, a montage of Hitler in a motorcade emoting into a zebra-striped speech bubble-and a question mark. The whole is obviously meant to depict the varied factors that Whiteley believes shaped his artistic sensibility; the balloons are also signs pointing to Whiteley's belief that life is a journey to be traveled and that it is dominated by the demonic force of history...
Nonetheless, many of the minor works are high-voltage pictures in themselves. A savage chop of cross-hatching and rapid brush strokes give Van Gogh's watercolor foliage as much urgency as one done in a heavy oil impasto; the extravagantly translucent turquoise shadows of his barred window at the Saint-Remy asylum emphasize the manic oppressiveness of the room's yellow walls...