Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stubborn," Ben Shahn insists at 69. "I paint two things: what I love and what I abhor...
...release flammable glycol when ruptured, have been "armor-plated" at joints with high-strength epoxy. Should the joints come open, the epoxy serves as a back-up seal. Along Apollo's 15 miles of electrical wiring, circuit-breaker panels have been fireproofed with twelve coats of Ladicote paint, newly developed by North American. Bundles of wire, previously exposed to dangerous scuffing and wear during assembly, maintenance, tests and flight, are now encased in protective metal panels that double as fire walls. In addition, such flammables as nylon nets and plastic containers have been replaced by nonflammable or fire-resistant...
...probing manned, rocket-powered flight and studying the solar spectrum at the edge of the earth's atmosphere (354,200 ft.), recently set a new speed record of 4,260 m.p.h., or 6.33 times the speed of sound. Last week the once all-black plane sported a white paint job covering new ablative material purposely designed to char in flight as the aircraft engages in tests that should push its maximum speed to a blistering Mach 8 by 1969. Snugged under its wings, the X-15 now carries twin, droppable tanks loaded with additional fuel needed to achieve such...
Mount, for his part, was purely a Yankee stay-at-home who spent most of his life in the farm country around Stony Brook, Long Island. He was a picturesque figure in a horse-drawn carriage, equipped as a studio with skylight and easel, touring the dirt roads to paint the farmers horse trading, napping, husking corn. He produced scores of paintings before his death in 1868 at 61, and among them was a charming rendition of cider-making time...
...Chicago." In his absence, art scholars were busy tracing the statue's forebears back to a 1962 metal cutout titled Head of a Woman, currently on exhibition at London's Tate Gallery. But as far back as 1907, when Picasso was inspired by African masks, he painted a figure in the famed Demoiselles d'Avignon bearing an uncanny resemblance to the new sculpture. Chicago's Picasso is also a realization of an old dream. In 1929, commenting on some gigantic monuments he had conceived for the Mediterranean shore, Picasso said: "I have to paint them because...