Word: spheroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with priceless relic-or a showcase of industrial diamonds at Tiffany's. Unfortunately, the sample contains no more than a few grams of the gray dust, and without a microscope to reveal the amazing green, brown and white colors of the individual glass shards or the weird dumbell and spheroid shapes of the gray glass beads, it looks like so much beach sand...
...epochal performance started innocently enough, as Willig totalled 450 after his first two balls. But the third ball was sheer poetry. The sandy-haired senior lit all four bumpers almost immediately, caromed the silver spheroid against the century target several times, and made brilliant saves repeatedly. When the smoke had cleard, Willig had surpassed 1900 points -- and everyone at Tommy's lunch knew he might be seeing history in the making...
...Gardner made an excellent zebra kick (a kick up the middle when the opposition expects one into touch) but an offsides penalty returned the prolate spheroid to the Crimson five-yard line. The Philadelphians took it across on a rush...
...prolate spheroid used in rugby is rounder than a football and therefore easier to kick, but more difficult to throw. The rugby match consists of two 35-minute periods of continuous play separated by a five-minute half-time break after which the teams change goals...
Absent Platform. Ferber's earlier work retained one convention: each piece, imprisoned by gravity, had to rest on an obvious base. In his Spheroid II, Ferber tried to eliminate the platform. The sculpture has the suggestion of an outer surface; but inside, everything is movement, with each form challenging every other. Taken literally, the sculpture does have a top and bottom, but esthetically it does not. Since it is in constant motion, its base is gone...