Word: strippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exuberance, the tension and terror, the close-up views of the stark and rugged moonscape. Yet there was a lighthearted air to the whole adventure, complete with jokes, corn pone and two spaceships named Charlie Brown and Snoopy, after the blithe-spirited characters of Charles Schulz's comic strip...
...hardening. Israel's new frontiers, says Premier Golda Meir, must provide "no natural advantage to our neighbors" (see box). In strategic translation, that means that Israel intends to retain part of Jordan's West Bank, at least a measure of Syria's Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and as yet unspecified portions of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Last week Deputy Premier Yigal Allon promised Israelis that "if our frontiers are made secure, they will eventually be recognized." Defense Minister Moshe Dayan added a carefully worded warning: "If the Arabs keep up their hostilities...
Inside the occupied territories, Arab shopkeepers in the town of Nablus closed their stores in symbolic mourning of the 21st anniversary of Israel's founding.-But the fedayeen guerrillas have failed notably to stir the populace to more drastic forms of resistance. In the Gaza Strip, a series of eight grenades exploded in crowded marketplaces, injuring 36 Arabs-evidently terrorist punishment for collaboration with the Israelis...
Double-Entendres. Berrocal's own sculptures are the best advertisement of his professional skills. They are composed of as many as 40 tightly interlocking parts, so intricately fitted that never a bolt or a screw is necessary. Taken apart, they look like a field strip of some improbable machine gun. Putting them together again requires the aid of an instruction sheet, which accompanies each work...
...sleep. The master shot of his bedroom stresses angles directed toward the background, Mudd's walk to the bed, then, goes against the dynamics of the frame and emphasizes his physical struggle. This shot cuts to a high angle of Mudd thrashing about on his bed--a dark strip running down the center of the frame surrounded by the grey emptiness of the floor (expressionism approaches surrealism). He rises and, in a stunning melodramatic sequence, directs his men to fire on an American ship in order to force it to land medical supplies on the disease-ridden island (romanticism...