Word: spider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Safe in a concrete bunker, tense men at a periscope window kept their eyes on Sonic Wind No. 2, a squat, steel sled with the menacing look of a robot spider. Beneath its red-and-white-striped cab, a string-straight rail track ran across the shimmering heat of Holloman Air Force Base. A patch of blue water dammed up between the rails stretched toward the end of the line, 3,500 ft. away...
...readiness to leave parent," "participation in game situation," and the like. They were interested also in muscular coordination ("Unduly slow movements?"), behavior patterns ("Cheerful?" "Sullen?"), and test behavior ("Restless?" "Fidgets?"). There was talk, too, of "group activity." Explained one psychologist : "We played a finger game called 'Eensy Teensy Spider.' We watched their responses when we said, 'You are now walking like a duck or hopping like a bunny...
...huntress' lair with her egg, and the larva thrives only on fresh meat. Though only such consecrated bug watchers as France's late great Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre get in on these magnificent shoots, British Science Writer John Crompton, author of the excellent Life of the Spider (TIME, July 3, 1950), has put all the bug watchers' best stories in this urbane and well-written book...
...added that among his "flying saucer" observations were: milkweed seeds and spider webs; sun reflections on weather balloons and sunblown tinsel paper...
...technologically advanced culture. However, for the most part these materials are welded into flowing metal metaphors. In contrast to painter Ferdinand Leger or the constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes of Arp and especially Miro have influenced...