Word: planetariums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just as Discovery I enters the orbit of Jupiter. There he sees the object of his trip-the omnipotent slab. He heads for it, and suddenly conventional dimensions vanish. An avalanche of eerie, kinetic effects attacks the eye and bends the mind. Kubrick turns the screen into a planetarium gone mad and provides the viewer with the closest equivalent to psychedelic experience this side of hallucinogens. At the end, beyond time and space, Dullea apparently learns the secret of the universe-only to find that, as Churchill said about Russia, it is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside...
...plastered with NASA moon photos and maps of outer space. His constructions are essentially intended as windows looking out of the world to a celestial view beyond. His Spheremusic #2, currently on display at New York's Whitney Museum, combines shining globes in concentric circles, like a baby planetarium. "The ball," he explains, "is the symbol of the infinite, of geometry, of an infinite continuum...
Half of society will have as its major concern getting such possessions as "the third helicopter or the second planetarium," he said. Intellectuals will rule, Kahn said. The only nonparticipants in society will be the 5 per cent who drop out of school and job into a psychedelic fantasy world, he predicted...
...reading skills will be studied. Sacramento School Superintendent Dr. F. Melvyn Lawson wants to concentrate on psychological and psychiatric services for disturbed children, hopes to find out "what's bugging problem youngsters and why they cannot tick." Arlington, Va., educators are considering a music center, a planetarium and a science day camp. Responding to a survey in the trade publication, Grade Teacher, Detroit Teacher Jean Curtiss declared: "Oh boy, I'd like to see to it that every child came to school decently clothed, especially with warm clothes" (part of the federal allotment can, in fact, be spent...
...painting, cows jump over moons, lovers float like lost balloons, roosters and angels hover like Technicolor constellations on the dome of a painterly planetarium. This kind of levitation has been stunning in dozens of paintings and murals but never more suitable than in his new ceiling for the Paris Opéra (see opposite page...