Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickly points up the difference in quality. The good works are enhanced by a view of their formation. For the bad, removing the mystery of their creation merely exposes their absurdity. In general, the poorer sculptures are simplistic works with sententious justifications. Dan Flavin, for instance, exhibits two parallel neon tubes, one yellow-gold, the other blue. The explanation? "Here will be the basic counting marks (primitive abstractions) restated long in the daylight glow of common fluorescent tubes. Such an elemental system becomes possible (ironic) from the context of the previous work." Such an elemental system is also possible...
...eighth time in the war, Guam-based B-52s roared in to plaster the Demilitarized Zone above the 17th parallel, this time in support of a 1,500-man Marine sweep south of the DMZ. Storming ashore from amphibious landing craft and coming to earth in choppers, the Marines met no significant contact, by week's end had killed only 30 Reds-a sharp contrast to their operation in the DMZ last July when 824 Communists were cornered and killed...
Roche's mind runs on intellectual lines that are remarkably parallel to Johnson's political thought. On the conduct of the war in Viet Nam, for example, Roche gives Johnson straight A's. "We are fighting a carefully limited war," Roche has written, "in the effort to attain a perfectly reasonable objective: the maintenance of the integrity of the Saigon government from Communist aggression masked as 'civil war.' " Johnson could not have put it better...
...Losers. There are some exceptions to the success story. The 7¾-mile Chicago Skyway has been unable to meet its interest payments on time; the free, federally sponsored Dan Ryan Expressway runs a parallel route, so Chicago Skyway traffic is about half of what was estimated. In West Virginia, a turnpike from Charleston (pop. 85,000) to Princeton (pop. 20,000 and not to be confused with Princeton, N.J.) runs "from nowhere to nowhere," according to critics. The route is losing money because the links with Interstate 64 and Interstate 77 will not be completed until approximately...
...combining the oceanographic functions of ESSA with those of the Geological Survey, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Bureau of Mines, and even the Coast Guard. Although the report stopped short of directly fingering ESSA to head this research, the logical conclusion is that ESSA may soon become the earth-bound parallel of space-bound NASA...