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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...messenger boy four years ago and arrived as a composer with Stupid Cupid. "What we do is take an adult idea and bring it on down to the kids' level," he says. "I figure we have 2½ minutes to grab interest, change pace and paint pictures. A pop song is like a movie-it's a little escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: St. Joan of the Jukebox | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...have bent to any fashion. But he wanted, as he said in a short story that he wrote about an artist who was obviously himself, to "revel in outlandish subjects." He could sometimes give a moonlit sky the same haunted-universe feeling as his contemporary, Albert Ryder. He could paint a game of croquet or a scene in Central Park with such feathery charm that these common, everyday scenes hardly seemed to come from reality. He painted innumerable nudes in all sorts of settings, and they all look as if he had made up the anatomy as he went along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eilshemius, the UNIQUE | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...Robert E. Mohr, 42, set up displays in drugstores, department stores and cigar stands, featuring a device that dunked a ticking watch into water and banged it with a hammer. The public really began to take notice when Mohr moved the torture test to television, shaking Timexes in automatic paint mixers, freezing them in blocks of ice, and tying them to plummeting high-divers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Watches for an Impulse | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

Upper level English courses contain many of these girls, as do courses in creative writing, foreign languages, and the other humanities. They rarely participate in extracurricular activities, with the exception of creative arts. When, they do act, write, paint, or play instruments -- it is usually extremely well. Probably they wrote poetry when they were young...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: The Three Flavors of Radcliffe | 3/12/1963 | See Source »

...used with caution. Another peril is heat. Space itself has no temperature (having no matter that can be hot or cold), but each object in space assumes a temperature that depends on the balance between the radiation that it absorbs and the radiation that it emits. A dab of paint (if it stays in place) can spell the difference between cold and hot. So can a shiny part that reflects sunlight to a light-absorbent part. Keeping all parts at proper temperatures is one of the hardest jobs in designing a viable spacecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Voyage to the Morning Star | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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