Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militant playfulness marking the first attack gave way to a scarifying vitality, almost flamelike, leaping forth and savagely sideways marking the spot where my youngest son had rubbed his backside across the wet wall. I charged on to the next one, which allowed for the incorporation of empty space, i.e., the doorway leading to the kitchen. Trying for a work full of people, animals, flowers and so on that only the sophisticated could see, I used only canary yellow but with a human edge around the doorway as a playful counterpoint to the hard edge of the baseboard...
...artificial heart, developed by Argentine-born Dr. Domingo Liotta, was made on the spur of the moment. "It was an act of desperation," Cooley admitted. "I was concerned, of course, because this had never been done before. But we had to put up one Sputnik to start the space program, and we had to start here some place...
...even there, delay and confusion continue. "Elephant lines" of as many as 25 planes often wait on runways to take off. A jet may circle for literally hours-hoping for clearance to land. In short, air travel, the great success symbol of 20th century man's conquest of space and time, is on the verge of becoming-like railways, highways, traffic and smog, a fit subject for bad jokes by stand-up comics. (Sample: "There really were three Wright brothers, but one is still stacked up over O'Hare...
...hours every day over the "Golden Triangle" airports bounded by New York, Washington and Chicago. Every separate aviation group (each served by its own persuasive lobby in Washington) had its favorite scapegoat. Private pilots blamed the airlines for overscheduling. Airline pilots blamed private aviation for taking up scarce runway space. The air-traffic controllers blamed FAA for not providing enough trained men or electronic equipment. FAA sighed and passed the blame along to Congress for not appropriating enough money. A bill that would have pumped $3 billion into airways and ground facilities never got out of committee...
...production is to be criticized in any way, it is that it does not completely realize its very great potential. As it stands, however, it is excellent. It is a find and frightening thing to achieve communication of that space between the conscious and the subconscious. This is the realm of uncertainty which is offered in much of its lonely awfulness by the admirable show...