Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different orientations of the orbiting electrons on the circles). During this process, the atom gives off a pulse of radiation with a wave length of 21 cm., which is also the message's basic unit of measure. For example, to the woman's right is the binary symbol for eight (D). Multiplied by 21 cm., the figure yields her height, 168 cm., or about 51 ft., which can easily be verified by comparing her size to that of the spacecraft...
...know if the message will ever be found or decoded," the Sagans and Drake write in Science. "But its inclusion on the Pioneer spacecraft seems to us a hopeful symbol of a vigorous civilization on earth...
...eyed slouch re-appears on the roads of Fellini's La Strada, their shabby existence is spot-lighted in the arena of The Clowns. On the beach, they will later encounter Picasso's "Seated Bather" (1930), a skeletai nightmare perched at the water's edge, turning the earlier symbol of the beach as social wasteland into the psychic boundary between the conscious and sub-conscious. Picasso's surrealism, captured also in the implicit and explicit imagery of the theme of the artist and his studio, or in his "Girl before a Mirror", raised the question of identity through images...
Once before, in the mid-1950s, striptease was briefly encouraged by Warsaw as an indication of liberalism. But then one stripper caused a sensation by dressing in native costume as Polonia, the symbol of the Polish nation, and stripping in three stages until her only attire was a set of chains. That supposedly symbolized Poland's captivity after its partition by the Austrians, Germans and Russians in the 19th century. But the act could also have been interpreted as a comment on Poland's fate under the Communists. A short time later, stripping was prohibited in Poland...
Occasionally, Shapiro's unremitting emphasis on sexuality falls flat, blunting once or twice an otherwise deft satirical job. The sexual overtones of a naked couple's encounter with a fascist Smokey the Bear defuse what could have been a more powerful swipe at the authoritarianism embodied even in the symbol of our national parks...