Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land in the U.S. Some of them actually did land in the Pacific Northwest, and although they caused almost no damage, they proved that the westerly winds at high altitude are fine balloon carriers. Last week the U.S. Navy was following the Japanese lead by launching balloons of plastic film from Oppama, Japan. Instead of bombs the balloons carried instruments to report weather conditions encountered on their long voyages...
Machinery & Veils. Anatomy at the Folies was so beautifully plastic that Rodin wanted to sculpt it; the theater was so colorful that Manet painted it. To see and meet the Folies' beauties, European royalty made pilgrimages to Paris...
Waterproof Plywood. A cheap, plastic-surfaced, waterproof plywood called Duraply, designed for the fast-growing small-boat industry, has been developed by Crown Zellerbach Corp. and U.S. Plywood Corp. Made with a new machine that permits the use of lower-grade logs, a ⅜-in.-thick plywood panel sells at the mill for $157 per 1,000 sq. ft., which Crown Zellerbach says is 16% less than comparable plastic-coated plywoods...
...Boylston Street Print Gallery are paintings and stained glass by Warren Jennerjahn, a young artist who succeeded Paul Albers in the Art Department at Black Mountain College. Like Albers, Jennerjahn is an heir of the de stijl movement. His paintings show a Neo-Plastic preference for horizontal and vertical themes. The development of this kind of painting out of cubism is shown in the transition from a fairly realistic housetop view to a small painting of a studio window in which the qualities of design begin to take command. Most of Jennerjahn's other paintings consider the canvas...
Three of the works in this exhibition depart from the Neo-Plastic tendency for a foray into Neo-Impressionism. A series of sunsets are in the pointillist style. The illusion of light and warmth produced by the use of light and color is spoiled by a clinical and sterile application of paint...