Word: pivoting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rembrandt; the landscapes are like nothing anyone had painted before. No wonder the little asylum, with its worn flagstone corridors and pine-shadowed garden, remains one of the sacred sites of modernist culture. Here, as in Manet's Paris and Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence, art turned on its pivot in the 19th century to face the 20th. One does not see many exhibitions like this in a lifetime...
...kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental and yet entirely permeable, lucid but not glib. The clear, simple axes and pitched-roof profile are classical, and the expansive ectoskeletal shed seems snatched from some 19th century dream of the 20th. The building's priapic pivot alludes to Bohm's own pioneering work: the central spiraling stair could be an ancestor or descendant of the tower at Bensberg...
...been orbiting Venus since December 1978, surveying the planet with an array of instruments. Around the time of Halley's perihelion, they realized, Venus--and thus Pioneer--would be in position to have a direct view of the comet. Late in December the scientists ordered the spacecraft to pivot 90 degrees and point its ultraviolet scanner at the comet. It has been transmitting Halley's data to Ames ever since. Says Ian Stewart, chief scientist of the Pioneer- Halley's project: "It's a gift from the gods, being in the right place at the right time." Pioneer has also...
...sports measurable by clocks and rulers, no one ever questions the superiority of modern athletes. Baby girl swimmers have left Johnny | Weissmuller in their backwash. An old pivot man like George Mikan would stand up against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about as well as the Four Horsemen would pull their pony weight in a National Football League backfield. Because baseball players appear not to change so much, they present their fans a wonderful illusion of constant values, like .300 batting averages. By this week, the fans should resume arguing over Pete Rose and Ty Cobb, surer than ever that human beings...
...impure form of actor's ego. His conversation consists mostly of quotations from his favorite notices and cheerful agreement with Cecilia's compliments. Daniels thus has two voices in the film's romantic trio, but he hardly drowns out Farrow's lovely performance. She provides the film's moral pivot. Its poignancy, truth and stature as a miniature masterpiece arise out of the hard choice she must finally make between perfect fantasy and imperfect reality...