Word: plexiglass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does allow a painting to travel for any significant distance, they might replace its glass shield with plexiglass, using a special filtering plexiglass to protect water-colors from fading in strong sunlight. The technicians would coat sculpture with a plastic varnish to protect it from scratches in transport...
...Crimson then began to really pan the home squad when Jonas Honick spot lighted Gary Ackerman for a backdoor layup that pushed the lead to 50-43. Ackerman went on to finish the evening with 18 points. Most of his scoring came off plexiglass pummeling inside. Honick also wound up in double figures, contributing 13 markers...
...behind me, his band on the thigh of his hard-faced date, continues to shriek, "Kill, Bruno, Kill." Moments later, as Bruno smashes Koloff on the head with a wooden chair (not the Hollywood breakaway variety) the crowed swarms like jackals in a feeding frenzy against the plexiglass enclosing the ring. It is obvious that the mere defeat of the villain will not satisfy them--they howl for blood, for dismemberment...
...play our best when we're loose," Darryl DePriest said after the game. It just took the squad 30 minutes to settle down to some of its best basketball of the season. DePriest said that the plexiglass back-boards and the vast expanse of empty seats made it hard to judge distances...
...academism at Harvard and MIT, where Kepes still teaches, Bauhaus style lectures will dwell on the physical perception of color rather than a particular style of painting. Carpenter Center's introductory courses are well stocked with Jose Albert's systematic color studies and laszlo Moholy Nagy's experiments with plexiglass and other transparent materials. Cambridge's resources seem too much to ignore--but enough regrets...