Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this belief in the efficacy of a strip of copper? No users can really explain their faith, though they all talk vaguely about body electricity, excess acids and even outright magic. But the most common (and completely unfounded) belief-held since the time of the ancient Romans-is that arthritis sufferers lack sufficient copper in their systems; thus users of the bracelets are somehow supposed to compensate for the deficiency. Golfer Bert Yancey credits his copper bracelet with easing an aching elbow in time for him to win the $25,000 Bing Crosby Open at Pebble Beach last January. Hollywood...
...noble stab at identity, though hardly necessary. At 51, Bill Copley is a sophisticated modern whose skittish lines and comic-strip teases have been displayed from Amsterdam to Albuquerque. His hangup, he confesses is humor. "People are shy of humor in painting," he says. "They think it has to be a serious matter. Well, humor is a serious matter. It's the only thing we have between ourselves and pessimism...
VICTOR VASARELY'S first visit to the Provengal village of Gordes was decisive. "Southern towns and villages devoured by an implacable sun have revealed to me a contradictory perspective," he wrote. "Never can the eye identify to what a given shadow or strip of wall belongs: solids and voids merge into one another, forms and backgrounds alternate, a given square jumps up or slithers downward depending on whether I couple it with a dark green spot or a piece of pale sky. Thus, identifiable things are transmuted into abstractions and begin their own independent life." From that moment...
...canal. They have accomplished their objective−neutralizing Israeli raids into Egypt, building up Egyptian defenses and binding the Arabs even more closely to Moscow−with the missiles that are already in place in the interior of Egypt. To send SAMs or pilots to the 25-mile strip west of the canal, over which Israel has proclaimed air superiority, would be to risk a military confrontation that Russians are not believed to want...
Died. Martin Branner, 81, cartoonist, who in 1920 created the Winnie Winkle comic strip that still runs in more than 150 papers; of heart disease; in New London, Conn...