Word: ponder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAINTING Triump of the Clumsiest In the act of painting, Chaim Soutine was something to behold. For months, he would ponder the idea for a painting, then in a wild outburst fling the paint onto the canvas with such vehemence that on one occasion he dis located his thumb. A model who posed for him never forgot the experience...
...light grid. The cells were located directly beneath the light bulbs; when the viewer's body intercepted an infra-red light beam, the cell triggered a relay switch to the bulbs above. Haacke's Photoelectric Viewer Programmed Coordinate System furnished little to look at, but lots to ponder at the coffee shops. Does a tree make a noise when it falls in the forest if nobody is there to hear it? Does a work of art cease to exist, because no one is there to turn...
...idea of a New York afternoon newspaper is still very much alive at the Daily News. The paper has been talking it over with the unions and has shown a dummy issue to prospective advertisers. This week the directors of the Chicago Tribune-Daily News meet in Florida to ponder a decision. "The News is farther down the road toward bringing out a paper than anyone else has been," says International Typographers Union Boss Bert Powers...
...Meeting to ponder the U.S. economy, twelve experts gathered under the auspices of the National Industrial Conference Board, emerged with predictions of a brisk first half, a slower second half, and for the year as a whole a satisfactory expansion in spite of unsettled periods. In summary, like 1967, it will be "another year of worrisome, uneasy prosperity...
Then there is SEXPOFF [Societe pour I'Exportation du Franc Franfais], a subversive movement to which all Amer icans in France automatically belong if they change francs into dollars, thereby reducing De Gaulle's ability to buy up Fort Knox. But sticklers over niceties now ponder whether those who reciprocate the nastiness of De Gaulle, whose character combines le Roi Soleil and De Lawd, are guilty of lese-majeste or sacrilege...