Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force Academy, is braced by an upperclassman, he sucks in his gut, throws out his chest and brays: "Sir, a doolie is that insignificant whose rank is measured in negative units, one whose potential for learning is unlimited." At meals he sits at attention and lifts his fork from plate to mouth in the rectangular movement of a robot; he shouts his response when asked a question. Until not so long ago, when entering his dormitory, he had to rasp in intercom fashion: "Sir, Air Force Academy jet 201K turning base, three green...
...Central's urge to merge with the Pennsy was renewed by two events: 1) the Pennsylvania seemed to be considering joining up with the projected merger of the Norfolk & Western (of which it owns 32.7%) and the Nickel Plate; 2) after a titanic proxy fight, control of Alleghany Corp.-the holding company that controls the Central-passed from Robert Young's associate, Financier Allan P. Kirby to the Texas brothers, Clint and John Murchison, and Perlman found himself working for new bosses who insisted that the solution to the problems of the Eastern railroads lay in merger. Reopening...
Even in his lifetime (1720-78), Piranesi printed his copper engravings so frequently that he often had to re-etch them to restore clarity. Now many of the plates-durably steel-coated at a heavy cost in faithfulness-belong to the Italian government, which occasionally runs off a new edition to the profit of the treasury. The prints produced in this "Piranesi industry" sell for around $15 each, but "the result is about as true to the original as a picture postcard would be," says Salamon. The merit of the Turin exhibit is to let viewers see prints from Piranesi...
...have lost a unique engraver. Neither the church nor the nobility were in the mood to spend on new buildings, and so Piranesi turned to drawing and engraving what he could not build. No laws of structure could restrain him now; he could let his fancy race across each plate and create an opera-set world that could never have been built in stone. He did his famous prisons while on a visit to Venice-great caverns filled with festoons of clanking chains, soaring arches and lacy bridges that piled space upon space as far as the eye could penetrate...
Intellectually, such comedy is as plain as beans on a plate. Physically, it is as intricate as tumbling, and few girls have the muscles or the timing for the job. Onetime Drum Majorette Reynolds has both. She makes falling off a horse look as easy as falling off a horse...