Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baschet's first musical invention was a collapsible guitar, built around an inflatable plastic cushion. It has a soft, seductive tone, can be deflated or patched like an inner tube. "After I invented it, I wanted to know why it worked," he explains. The search led him to Paris' National Library and books of 19th century acousticians, e.g., Helmholtz. Their theoretical discussions flashed through Baschet's teeming imagination and emerged as sounds-new sounds of otherworldly groans, melodious thuds and haunting echoes, which came from the vibrations of two metal spirals plus a plastic resonator. Baschet took...
...boom headed for a sharp upturn or a slide? For months the question has split official Washington. One faction, which includes President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, worried that business was slowing down, kept a wary eye on such soft spots as autos and farm prices. But the Federal Reserve Board leaned in the opposite direction, convinced that the boom was still picking up speed so fast that it might get out of hand. Last week the Federal Reserve governors decided it was time to put more checks on credit and industrial expansion. With a flourish...
...Soft drinks in aerosol pressure cans (American Can Co.), which squirt out when the cap is pressed...
Fall Guy. In Milwaukee, uninjured when his auto swerved off the highway, Eugene Cromwell stepped out to survey the damage, fell into a soft. limestone quarry, broke...
...film on Pablo Picasso. Although the short is marred by an overblown commentary, it presents well-photographed selections which well illustrate Picasso's development. Most interesting are some shots of the artist at work. One sequence, in which Picasso takes a vase fashioned of soft clay and with a few strokes of his hands turns it into the figure of a dove, is a small miracle of creation...