Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awaiting his turn in the starting pen, Engan spends half an hour putting a glassy wax surface on his skis. Then he is on his way, whistling down the slide, tucking his body into a ball to get more speed. Soaring high above the hill, arms pressed tightly along his sides, body tilted forward until his nose is inches from the tips of his skis, Engan has perfect balance. "Until I touch down," he says. "I could just as well close my eyes...
...feet are sprung steel on points when he dances his soundless ballets. He is a theatrical master of total illusion. When he climbs an imaginary ladder, the rungs creak; when he leans against a nonexistent bar, the bar leans back with wooden stubbornness; when his outthrust palms slide feverishly along a make-believe wall, the air turns brick-solid...
...time, so he has to make do without actual water. But everything else is the same. In his home on the pier, a boardwalk fun house tilted 45 degrees, he sleeps in a hammock, serves coffee to plump lady guests, catches them tactfully by the knees when they slide off their tilted chairs, and paces the floor (with some difficulty on the uphill and a kind of run downhill...
...painting, the great new movement was impressionism. Though Munch admired and benefited from this exploration into the mysteries of light, he himself was concerned with "shadows and movements, such shadows as a prisoner sees in his cell, those curious grey streaks of shadows which flee and then return, which slide apart and come together again like fans, bending, curving, dividing." In almost all his canvases there is such tension and vibration that even a bright landscape like Midsummer Night (see color) seems about ready to disintegrate into tragedy. For Munch, nature was filled with menace, and the human body...
...level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over 18,000 sq. mi., connected by 3,000 miles of road, only 500 of them paved. At the sites, the TE's raise the birds, slide them gently into place...