Word: spirals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breeze was stirring north of Maryland. At Hatteras, N.C., the Weather Bureau's radar (which shows rain-filled air) watched lone approaching with measured tread. She had a clear little eye in her center (the signature of a hurricane), and around it were elaborate swirls like a spiral nebula (see cuts'}. But lone lingered; her eye grew dim; her spirals dissolved in a structureless blob of rain...
Despite the general economic boom, there has been no new inflationary spiral. For two years the cost-of-living index has held generally steady, is now only half a percentage point above the level of April 1953. The value of the dollar has been stabilized-an element of immense importance in the new mood of confidence...
...wedding in a nudist colony." Modernists have found Milles wanting in imagination to move beyond the aura of Rodin, and lacking in Rodin's great power. For his part Milles sees little to praise in modern sculpture. "Their work is too stiff," he says. "They take a spiral and make a hole in it. I can do that myself...
...Arctic. At the instructor's command, each student climbs the spiral stair that leads to the platform inside the dome. He glances up at the simulated stars and selects the ones he thinks will guide him best. He observes their position with a sextant, just as he would on a real airplane, and hurries back to his desk to figure out his position over the Canadian tundra or the frozen Polar...
Colors for Hours. Back in the 1920s Kiesler* pioneered both "floating" building (cantilevered out from masts, like suspension bridges) and "spiral" architecture (abolishing the division between floors) which Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright later developed. In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens. In the 1940s he painted ideally simple theater sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood...