Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eisenhower Theater, stripped to the pipes and rafters, is a cavernous expanse of catwalks, stairways, trapdoors and art deco modules that glide across the stage unloading and gobbling up performers. A string quartet provides onstage musical accompaniment, while the actors (their faces often decorated with red or green war paint) are showered with a hodgepodge of spotlight effects meant to simulate movie close-ups. Most of the 3 1/2 hours is played at fever-pitch intensity; yet the climactic dueling scene is performed in virtual darkness, and in hushed tones barely above a whisper...
...Neptune and Uranus. Even the discovery of Pluto in 1930 did not fulfill the gravitational force needed to justify Uranus' meanderings, and some astronomers have long thought that a tenth planet is somewhere out there. Astronomer Robert Harrington of the U.S. Naval Observatory has gone so far as to paint a description of the suspect, and it is no pedestrian planet. It is three to five times the mass of the earth, is gaseous like Jupiter, has an orbit that is elliptical rather than circular and inclines to the plane of the solar system at an angle of perhaps...
...getting him out of the way, was putting him domain in front of the Mac and letting him quickly discovered, "The one thing which was good for getting him out of the way, was putting him down in front of the Mac and letting him loose with the paint...
...logical point of view," says Branimit Zivkovic, Harvard fencing coach. "An athlete has used a piece of equipment for a long time, and knows what it will do for him." He tells the story of a Harvard fencer who could note the difference made by a layer of paint on the handle of the foil...
...Capital Cities' first employee. In 1954 he was put in charge of a near bankrupt Albany television station bought by the broadcaster Lowell Thomas and a partner. Murphy took a "waste not, want not" approach from the start. Noticing that his ramshackle headquarters building was badly in need of paint, he immediately spruced up the two sides that were visible from the road...