Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venice Biennale in 1962, and was awarded the $10,000 Guggenheim International in 1964 and France's coveted Grand Prix National des Arts in 1965. But Giacometti cared more for life than honors. Said he, "I prefer the sight of a bird living in the sky to any masterpiece...
...final frame turned the whole experiment into a resounding success. Last week, after careful analysis of the spectral lines recorded on his film, Morton was able to offer exciting new evidence toward the solution of an old astronomical enigma: Why are there so many white dwarf stars in the sky when there have been so few of the supernova explosions that are believed to produce them...
...week long, New York lay under an eerie siege. From Manhattan's sky scrapers to the rows of neat little homes in Queens, from Harlem's tenements to the farthest reaches of Brooklyn, the bustle and excitement that symbolize the world's greatest city became a slow-motion mockery of itself. For the first time in history, the huge city was with out any mass public transportation, which had been shut down by a strike of its 36,000-member Transport Workers Union. The 134 miles of subway tubes, normally jammed daily with 4.6 million passengers, stretched...
...Janer, 55, "that, I hope, come through with a magic that makes people see nature in them." He can brush a cool, grainy vision that recalls arctic tundra seen from 25,000 ft. up, or the scorched, forever autumnal desert of the American Southwest. Says he: "The earth, the sky and the sea are my sources of information...
Johnson was full of explanations to the effect that the enclosing structure symbolized the "magnetism" of Kennedy. The boxlike effect means, says the architect, that: "You can't see Dallas. You can't see anything but the sky. You are forced into an attitude of reverie." But most people, seeing the model, just thought it was terribly square...