Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using 70-mm. Hasselblad still cameras, 16-mm. Maurer movie cameras and roll after roll of color and black-and-white film the Apollo astronauts literally photographed everything within sight: Gumdrop, Spider, the third-stage S-4B rocket, themselves, and the curved expanse of earth below. During the somewhat more relaxed final half of their mission, they also tried out a variety of filters and specialized film to shoot infrared, green-light and other pictures that should teach scientists more about the earth and its resources...
Faltering Language. As analyzed by Bruner, these somewhat predictable results yield some provocative insights into the nature of the intellect. No one teaches a baby the value of two-handedness. Yet at a certain stage in its development, the baby discovers this by itself. To Bruner, this is as if the knowledge were already there. In all of his experiments, he has repeatedly been struck by the same suspicion: that intention (the will to do something) precedes skill (the ability...
...Shadow. Many of the gallerygoers who have seen the show in the past month, including many of the critics, feel as if they had never really seen a Frankenthaler before. In Manhattan's close and somewhat clubby artistic community, nearly everybody knows Helen Frankenthaler as a charmer, a hostess and a presence. Back in the early 1950s, she was the brash, aggressive young girl friend of Clement Greenberg, the eloquent critic and self-appointed evangelist who has done the most to recognize and extol the genius of Jackson Pollock. For the past eleven years, she has been the wife...
...Free Diversions. In Japan, the system for subsidizing executive fun and games works somewhat differently. At the end of each month, women who run geisha houses and popular bars troop to the accounting departments of big firms. Each visitor carries sheafs of bills and whispers the name of the executive-san concerned. They are paid, no questions asked. The Japanese executive has the world's most generous expense account for nocturnal diversions. A government survey found that in 1967, Japanese businessmen spent $1.4 billion on nontaxable "official entertainment." The 1,140 bars along Tokyo's Ginza depend...
Last week Riklis, 45, completed a major step in that direction. In a somewhat serpentine financial maneuver, Riklis last December had Rapid-American Corp., the keystone of his corporate complex, make a friendly tender offer designed to strengthen his holding in Glen Alden Corp. Glen Alden is a onetime coal company that Riklis has been using for acquisitions in such areas as Playtex underwear, B.V.D. shorts and, most recently, Schenley Industries. The company had been under the rather tenuous control (14%) of McCrory Corp., a retailing outfit that is 51%-owned by Rapid-American. Thus, by exchanging Rapid securities worth...