Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece, six-tiered assembly of bamboo rods to be struck by sticks padded with felt. Rising to the grandeur of his tasks, he finally produced the Spoils of War-a big and ugly one-man band strung up on a gallows and made from artillery shell casings, cloud-chamber bowls (from the Radiation Laboratories at Berkeley), a blow-boy (composed of bellows, a 1912-auto-exhaust horn and three organ pipes), a whang gun ("WHANG-OOOO," it hoots when struck), and a raspidor that sounds like mice scratching inside a wall...
...seems the most promising solution to the old plague. At field stations in Africa, World Health Organization experts are busy testing dozens of compounds prepared in the laboratories of private industry. After screening 5,000 compounds in search of one that kills snails but leaves other stream life unharmed, Shell Oil researchers in Britain reported that they may finally have discovered the chemical the world has been waiting for. One pound of the stuff per acre of water kills snails within 15 minutes by attacking their respiratory system. According to company claims, it is "relatively innocuous" to other forms...
...with the Allies. The oddest part about Beitz's easy entree to the East is that he earned it running a Deutsche Shell oil refinery in German-occupied Poland during World War II. One of the few Germans who effectively frustrated the Gestapo, he saved scores of Polish Jews by demanding their release from extermination camp-bound trains on grounds that they were needed in the refinery. In 1960 the Polish government honored Beitz for his impulsive decency under wartime stress-and he seized the opportunity to talk up trade...
Director Andrei Tarkovsky has mixed daring with poetry in making this film: he shows the Soviet hero as an individual troubled with the doubts and complexities of other humans. True, Tarkovsky's people are all noble, but under their shell of nobility there is a core of honest fear. He also uses Christian symbols in a way new to Soviet films; Western audiences can have but one interpretation for a brief scene showing a wrought-iron cross, the rising sun gleaming behind it, standing silent after a night of shellfire. And the end brings another arresting touch: a bare...
...onetime Spanish ski champion and soldier in the Republican army, Candela came to Mexico as a refugee in 1939. But it was not until eleven years later that he began experimenting with his shell structures and landed his first big commission, the Cosmic Ray Pavilion in University City. Since then his umbrellas and shells have popped up everywhere-as factories, housing projects, private homes, chapels or as shelters for the marketplace. The basic shell forms are only an inch or two thick, but they can be modified, tipped, inverted, varied almost indefinitely. In earlier days, Candela seemed to accomplish this...