Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enters into a dialogue with nature: "We Orientals seem more apt at it than Westerners." At his exhibitions, he posts signs reading PLEASE TOUCH. "I'm afraid the sensuous joys of touch have been far too long confined to boudoirs," says he. So he polishes his sculpture mirror-smooth with grindstones, sometimes for months...
Though one of the Nagare trademarks is a smooth finish, he leaves a link with nature in his sculpture. His technique is called ware hada, or broken texture, whereby some surfaces retain the original texture of the raw rock as it broke naturally in the mountains. When he cannot obtain it, he drills holes, fills them with water, and puts the stones outdoors in freezing weather to split by themselves. This textural contrast is vital to Nagare: "You have to have male and female. Like anything else under the sun, you have to have light and shadow, movement and stillness...
...smooth pattern of action is broken, man, horse, steer-or all three -can be crippled or killed. To rodeo men, the poorest form of all is called the "houlihan," when a bulldogger illegally knocks the steer down as he jumps from his horse and the dazed animal somersaults on top of him. In a "dog fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under...
...smooth-cheeked teenagers, Japan's champion swimmers proved that the Olympic pool in Los Angeles was no place for old men of 20. Last week in Tokyo, a California high school boy and his teen teammates taught the startled Japanese a bit of their own lesson. Against a seasoned team studded with 1960 Olympics competitors, and with an average age of 21, American youngsters (average age: 18½) displayed stunning virtuosity, completely dominated the dual meet, and cracked five world records...
Vibration is usually a dirty word in the space age lexicon. The delicate instruments of missiles, aircraft and spacecraft function best in a smooth environment, and scientists are continually searching for means to eliminate the least little bump. But deliberate vibration has its uses too, and last week, in widely separated laboratories, engineers were putting man-made jiggles to work. Applications...