Word: slots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world became permeable. Patterns, arcs, straight lines, enclosures and tangencies now became the syntax of Kelly's formal language, in painting as in sculpture. He did not, in short, start from geometry. Thus Relief with Blue, 1950, whose flaring curves channel the eye into a pale blue slot like a narrow doorway, was suggested by the drapery of a set for Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Hamlet, which Kelly saw in Paris. Other paintings evolved from sketches Kelly made of arches reflected in the Seine, of water ripples, or of shadows on the metal staircase...
...griddles; and not least of these attentions was the cover of Time Magazine, which had Mailer's fuzzy silver bush of hair being fondled by Monroe, a composite creation made possible by the insertion of a picture of the fifty year old dean of American literary machismo into a slot vacated by the original fondlee, Monroe's third husband--the former saint of the liberal theater in America, Arthur Miller. Cruel scissors, ironic paste! Mailer had ballooned in stature by bringing to life the first casualty of the sixties' American royalty...
...vaults Harvard up to a fine position for the fourth playoff slot in New England, barring a loss against Yale at home Saturday...
Though the visibility of 900 yds. was well within the Vanguard's safety zone and the pilot made the prescribed approach, he announced to the controllers in the airport tower that he wanted to try again. After a second turn, the Vanguard, sinking rapidly, was in a perfect slot for landing. But to the controller's surprise, the pilot suddenly said that he had overshot the runway. Then radio contact broke...
Petty, starting in the No. 2 slot, challenges Allison on the very first turn of the five-eighths-of-a-mile course. The sellout crowd roars in anticipation of a repeat of last year's race when Petty waged a long fender-crashing duel with Allison before pulling ahead to win in the final laps. But Petty, a "charger" who likes to "drive the way I feel it," plays it crafty. Instead of "drafting"−a risky tactic Petty invented, in which he practically sits on an opponent's tail pipe, using the partial vacuum created...