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...Spank" which despite a lurid obsession with the imperfections in children's teeth and hair has its charming moments. I wish he would not pause so long to build up great tortuous heaps of detail before allowing his children to move; the story emerges as a photograph of huge, static, concrete set-pieces...
Glimp expressed mixed feelings about the relatively static application total. "We are delighted it doesn't grow so fast that we can't give adequate consideration to each individual," he said...
...Founder. The radio window was accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky. a Bell Telephone physicist who was studying the crackling static that can be so annoying in radio communications. During quiet periods, when no lightning flashes were disturbing the atmosphere, a faint hiss still sounded in his receiving apparatus. It seemed to rise and fall in strength as the earth turned. Jansky studied the hiss more carefully and found that its maximum strength came four minutes earlier each day. The time interval seemed significant...
...rarely visits galleries, is wholly unaffected by "trends." He is in a sense one of the most isolated of America's top artists, yet his appeal is universal. Whether realists or abstractionists, artists admire him; he casts a spell over layman and sophisticate alike. His paintings, so static at first glance, are charged with emotion; his surface realism is a window to a higher reality beyond...
...situation in Cuba remains static or becomes more intense, there will be widespread protest among Negroes in this country," essayist-novelist James Baldwin told an overflow audience of 700 at M.I.T. last night. "I can't tell what form it will take, but you will feel it all around...