Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...created when gamma rays from an exploding weapon strike electrons in the surrounding air, causing them to move rapidly away from the center of the burst. Because of the shape of the warhead, the irregularity of the atmosphere or the proximity of the explosion to the earth, the pattern of the outward-speeding electrons is seldom symmetrical; the overall effect is similar to that caused by a flow of accelerating electrons in only one direction...
...Think of Harvard as a blank wall," Cluster said. "That's the way it is and that's the way many think it should be. We think there's another way to look at it. The university is here for people to act upon, to shape and to mold. This is our reaction to Harvard's attempt to stifle creativity...
...even his own words, and still less those of his cataloguers who speak of "interplay of space and void" are inadequate when they come to his work. They cannot delineate a method of work, or describe the shape of a from...
...Mirko does not preconceive an object. "I try to be free and to catch what is the essence." From the nucleus of an idea he enters into a dialogue-- a dialogue of eyes and hands and shape and what might be called soul. "I first try to understand, then to make contact [with the work], like you first meet and later make contact with a person...
...easy to cut, join, and texture with just a fingernail or scrap of wood. And he modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten metal...