Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect remission was only temporary-as doctors well knew and Davis apparently never suspected. To get himself in shape, Ernie ran plays in practice with the Browns last fall and played winter basketball with the Browns' team. Then one day last week, he noticed new glandular swelling and quietly checked into Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital. Just 36 hours later, Ernie Davis, 23, was dead...
...each was made of 22 million copper wires one-third as thick as a human hair. The wires were stuck together with naphthalene, the familiar material of mothballs. As the disks spun in space, the naphthalene slowly vaporized, releasing a cloud of wires that spread into a sausage shape, then into a long cylinder curving around the earth, 2,000 miles above its surface...
Most of his subjects were not plains but buildings; whatever the structure. White approached it with a painter's eye for the play of shadow and the effect of shape upon varying shape, seemingly as concerned with pictorial content as he was with underlying architecture. White's buildings were of course constructed from the most detailed blueprints, but they often appear as though he had rubbed a lamp, pointed to a drawing, and told the djinni to build just that...
...stock techniques: the placement of the curious (whether an object, texture or color) next to the ordinary, the abrupt disordering of space, an almost mannerist play of light. He jumped like a child at hopscotch from Fauvism to cubism to Dadaism to sur realism, but it was Dada that shaped him most. He was one of the few American members of the original school, and for him it never really died: his determined disrespect for the materials of art and deep attention to the ideas that art can shape lend the current collection its saving measure of excitement. In Optical...
...series of thin vertical lines, which the human eye finds easier to read. Bull's machine then interprets the number through a Morse code-like system that notes the number of lines and the varying widths of spaces between them but makes no attempt to determine the actual shape of the numeral. It immediately rejects any check that shows a flaw in the "dot-dash" code. Machines Bull's system is simpler and cheaper to buy ($12,000 for basic equipment for a small bank) than the system that IBM was pushing...