Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly was. But outside her big glass doors the warm sun sparkled on azure water under a cloudless sky. This, in fact, is why Merle Oberon, an actress whose beauty persists, and her husband, a Mexican industrialist, built their new palazzo in Acapulco, the mountain-rimmed bay on the southwest coast of Mexico that claims to have better year-round weather than any place anywhere. And this is why Acapulco is currently in the throes of transition...
...that the Viet Nam war is considerably less deadly than World War II, in which he saw combat duty in the Navy. Then, he says, "there was constant fear in so many cases-sitting all alone in a foxhole getting shelled, or on a rolling ship scanning the sky for kamikazes. The fear was there and it made you think of God. Here, relatively few guys are confronted with death every...
...Says Critic-Sculptor George Rickey: "Nature is rarely still. She follows natural laws: gravity, Newton's laws of motion, the traffic laws of topology." Gabo proclaimed: "Look at a ray of sun-the quietest of the silent strengths-it runs 300,000 kilometers in a second. Our starry sky -does anyone hear it?" But whether attuned to the music of the spheres or the metallic clanking of makeshift machines, artists by the score are now trying to make poetry out of motion. Among the leaders (all shown in following color pages...
...nearly subliminal manner. At first glance, his sculptures seem static; then by degrees the spectator becomes aware that they are gently trembling and jittering with insectile gestures. Like molecules jostling to the ceaseless rhythms of Brownian movement, they express physical uncertainty and ambiguous motion. "Watch a plane in the sky," says Bury. "It barely seems to be moving. The eye is no longer able to trace the action, although it can easily follow a horse galloping along a country road...
...memory stored scores of interviews, which he set down later in 6,000 pages of notes. His ear and his eye caught everything: Perry Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...