Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dead Heat. In Melbourne, Australia, research uncovered the scattered remains of the great race horse Carbine (1890-1914), one hoof at Victoria Racing Club, one hoof in possession of an English duke, the body skeleton at Melbourne's National Museum, the head at the Auckland, N.Z. War Memorial Museum, the hide as upholstery of the president's chair at the Auckland Racing Club...
...threat to children (a Canadian boy has been found with three times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said Dr. Schulert, "since the growing fetal skeleton reflects the diet of the mother," and the fast-growing fetus is especially vulnerable to damage from radiation...
...enough to bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than his record would suggest...
Venezuela's problems officially become President Romulo Betancourt's problems this week. Before a skeleton crew of delegates from overseas-held down at the economy-minded President-elect's own request, he will get into the ceremonial sash and inherit the headaches left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez...
...trying to reduce my means-it is a demonstration of my economic inclination," he explains with a sly twinkle behind his glasses. Albers has an equally simple explanation for the ambiguity of his new pictures and their shifting forms: "My purpose is to show that within the same skeleton different actions may appear. In Duo B the left and right figures come from the same module. The construction invites the spectator to see from different viewpoints within his own vision-to take changing viewpoints. As in most of my work, the esthetic aims are ethical aims...