Word: raye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cosmic ray intensity, the third space factor observed by the Explorer, is harder to interpret. Apparently the average increase above the intensity at the surface of the earth-twelve times-is about what was expected. More interesting are hints that cosmic rays in space may fluctuate considerably with time, and vary from place to place. Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa says that a radio station in Tokyo that was picking up the satellite's signals last week noted a sudden increase in cosmic rays to as much as five times above normal. If this observation...
...city's Vogue Theater, the only public screen it has found in the U.S. In London, where it did excellent business, the Observer called it "tremendously affecting," and the New Statesman rated it "a masterpiece." Written, directed and produced by a 36-year-old Indian named Satyajit Ray. the film describes the slow decline and quiet fall of a family in an Indian village. Homely, poetic, stunningly beautiful to see, it is one of the finest pictures of recent years...
...BECAUSE the X-ray machine can penetrate the surface of a painting without doing any damage, it has long been an indispensable tool for art historians. Layers of paint on canvas (including the liberal amounts of white lead used by old masters to lighten their pigments) absorb X rays in varying amounts, thus producing on a negative a revealing shadowgraph. To the trained art scholar's eye, an X ray of a painting can often reveal its whole history, from the first unseen priming coat the artist put on the canvas, through the artist's corrections and overpainting...
...famous painting of his mistress, Young Woman Powdering. Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich and Painting Conservator Louis Pomerantz, taking advantage of the loan of the painting from London's Courtauld Institute for the Chicago Seurat show (TIME, Jan. 20), decided to test the legend by X ray. To their delight, they found beneath the paint the blurred outline of a man's head. The discovery tended to confirm the tale that Seurat had painted it over after a friend had pointed out that it would be in dubious taste...
Among the first tenants in the new building will be Chicago's civically proud Association of Commerce and Industry. Its decision to move there added point to Leigh Block's assertion: "In a city of dark buildings, our new building offers a ray of hope and cleanness and, I think, drama...