Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complement is nature." He fully realizes that some open-air sites are wrong for some sculptures, e.g., a windswept hilltop for a realistic statue of a naked adolescent girl. But he likes to place his work "with room to stretch the eye beyond," seeing it in relation to sky and trees, on murky days, in summer sunshine and snow, surrounded by space, air and light. "Indoors," he says, "one can put a piece of sculpture under a flattering light and kid oneself that what only half exists is already there, but a sculpture almost fails to exist under the diffused...
...other hand, they would resent an arrangement which set up inspection zones exclusively on U.S. and Soviet territory, leaving Europe out. Dulles' mission is to resolve just what segment of the world's horizon is to be offered to the Russians as an "open sky...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...
...better order") led him to the notion that "the breaking of forms by light creates colored figurations. These colored figurations are the structure of the picture, and nature is no longer a subject of description." The theory was revolutionary. Said Delaunay: "Thus far, a tree was green, a sky was blue. Now we shall paint colors because color is a goal in itself...
...studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different." i.e., to be what U.S. tradition calls "individualistic" or nonconformist, what orthodoxy dubs heretical, what psychiatry calls neurotic...