Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pioneer III was a 12.95-lb. Fiberglass cone. Its surface was washed thinly with gold to make it electrically conductive, and it was ingeniously utilized as an antenna for Pioneer's radio. Over the gold were stripes of black and white paint, designed to control heat from the sun's rays and thus to keep Pioneer III warmer than Pioneer I, whose interior became so cold that some instruments did not work...
...eventually led to a place as head of the General Motors Research Corp., a vice president's title, a seat on the G.M. board and a fortune estimated at $33 million. For the next 48 years he kept probing, testing-often failing. But his successes included quick-drying paint, chrome metal, ethyl gasoline, a two-cycle diesel engine for locomotives-and more than 100 others...
...from au juste. They simply lack authority, and this is not quite enough. His illustrations for Gulliver's Travels are more happily resolved through chiaroscuro; but at this point one tends to view alternative techniques with a distrustful eye. It is significant that Rembrandt, the master of chiaroscuro in paint, worked in his drawings for complete structural clarity...
...British reader will get a broader-based view of serious U.S. news than he has been able to get from the sometimes capable but always highly subjective accounts of the few old hands, e.g., the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke. Some of the newcomers have begun to paint the U.S. with verisimilitude; Joyce Egginton, in a profile of Leonard Bernstein in the London News Chronicle, described him as "an orchestral conductor who looks like a dark-haired Danny Kaye, dresses like Mao Tse-tung, gyrates like Elvis Presley, and is apt to treat his audiences like first-year musical...
...with money to burn and a wall to fill, and Guinness is off on one of the funniest half-hours he has ever played. When the millionaire takes a trip to Jamaica, Gulley without so much as a by-your-leave moves into his apartment and starts to paint a wall he has taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor at the devastation...