Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doris Lessing herself has gone the route from Marxist materialism to Sufi mysticism. The parallel with Orkney is quietly apparent. So is the meaning: that the beliefs one holds at various times are not always as important as the journey to and from them...
Later, it became Braque's habit to mix sand with his paint. The gritty paste, imbued with color and resistant to the skimming eye, served two purposes. It presented his paintings as surface; and it insisted upon a slowness of inspection, parallel to the immense deliberation which Braque himself brought to the act of painting. Such works are all about explicitness: witness a masterpiece like The Pink Tablecloth, 1938, with its assembly of waterjug, book, lemons and glass enjoying their mutual silvery transparency on a pale amoebic cloth, linked together by a shaved white line that both dictates...
...Visual Parallel. Typically, each of Johnson's works focuses on one central emblem, stained into an unstretched canvas that hangs, like a banner, on the wall: an orange-gold cone hovering in a void of purplish red; an exhilarating surge of scrolling ocherous waves, speckled with jade and malachite green. Johnson is an exceptional colorist, both astringent and opulent, and his work-like many a Tibetan tanka or Indonesian temple door-makes no bones about its decorative aspect. Yet behind this seduction of the eye is a strange impersonality, as though Johnson's role in painting them...
Both the garage and the Holiday Inn are part of an avid rush by local landowners to cast a plastic gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize...
Proverbial Arrow. The very nature of laser light gives it a potential for destruction. Unlike ordinary light, which consists of a chaotic jumble of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies, laser beams are composed of light waves of only a single frequency. These waves are not only parallel but are also in phase: their crests and troughs coincide and reinforce each other, making it possible to produce an extremely intense and concentrated beam. In practice, however, lasers have drawbacks. The beams collide with molecules in the atmosphere and weaken over long distances; like sunlight, they may be blocked by clouds...