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...feels "as transparent as the wing of a fly." Scared silly, he drinks himself into a stupor. But when his head clears, God is still on his back and dawn is breaking. "A tree of light burst over the skyline. He felt the light pouring through him, turning his spiderweb soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts." In terror and wonder, he presents himself to his wife. She takes one look at his back and drives him out of the house. "Idolatry! Idolatry!" Broken and bewildered but blazoned in bliss, the redneck...
...their own country; the other artists in the two shows are almost all making their U.S. debuts. Luis Feito, 31, piles his paint to build up black and white compositions that resemble small cities seen from the air. Manuel Rivera, 33, works almost entirely with wire mesh to make spiderweb constructions, which he usually calls Metamorphosis. Manuel Viola, 41, gives a rare kind of pleasure with canvases that seem to have an inner glow of their own. And the imaginative iron sculpture of Eduardo Chillida almost seems to dance...
...spiderweb gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will...
...Captain Johannes Diebitsch barked his orders to douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper came crashing down, covering the deck with a lethal spiderweb of flailing steel cables. Heavy wooden yardarms slashed right and left, battering lifeboats and rafts into pulp, and punching holes in the deck itself...
Boom & Bust. All of Inco's production came from its famed mines near Sudbury, Ont., where the company has drilled a 396-mile spiderweb of underground tunnels fanning out through five mines. Sudbury is to nickel what Minnesota's Mesabi Range is to iron, at one time supplied more than 80% of the free world's nickel. But the credit for making it pay off goes to a pair of hardheaded metalmen with the know-how and vision to turn nickel into one of the world's most important minerals: Inco's onetime President...