Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jerk. Open gores, or pie-shaped sections cut out of the canopy, developed by the British and Russians, permit the parachutist to steer by tugging on the wooden toggles attached to the risers. He insists that for the first five jumps the chutes be opened automatically by a static line attached to the aircraft. After that, the adventurous jumper can essay the free fall, and look forward to the day when he can perform swanlike maneuvers in thin air, until the onrush of solid ground-or his own nervousness-makes it advisable to pop his chute. A parachutist needs...
...will be constructed-on as many as seven levels-around sunken courts, terraces and gardens; all interior spaces will be air-conditioned, and circulation between levels will be by elevators, escalators or stairs enclosed in glass kiosks. At the north end, two cantilevered buildings rise to break the otherwise static skyline; at the south end, a series of terraced "hanging gardens" descend from the grade to Panther Hollow Lake, a boating and skating pond below. The whole has been described as a 150-story building "resting on its side...
...credit, the film possesses many virtues that the stage Balcony lacked. There is a consistent if somewhat incoherent plot line, and good riot scenes expertly spliced from newsreels dispell, to a degree, the static quality that results from Genet's weak talkiness. The playwright treated his characters as speaking symbols; Maddow converted them into more three-dimensional figures...
...that what is good is never too long neglected. To an extent, the Museum of Modern Art and its excellent catalogue have performed this service for Rodin. The show that opened last week firmly established him as the father of modern sculpture, an artist who gave new movement to static form...
...catastrophic war that will no occur; 2) the U.S. will continue to foo the bill for expensive space exploration and aid to foreign countries; 3) most important of all, the nation's technology will continue to improve, for freedom from want is not in the cards for a static society. Some sample predictions...