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Gay with Banners. Motherwell followed the surrealists' injunction to take doodling seriously as a way of tapping subconscious images-"only the doodling is done on the scale of the Sistine Chapel, not of the telephone pad." To illustrate a friend's poem in 1948, he made his most...
Sir: How about the beautiful vertical palindrome formed by the title of the monthly publication of the Zoological Society of San Diego: ZOONOOZ?
∙ PALINDROMES, as Borgmann presents them, are still more fun. Spelled the same backward as forward, they fall into several categories: palindromic words (Malayalam, evitative, detartrated); palindromic names and trade names (Mary Belle Byram, Yreka Bakery); vertical palindromes that read in reverse when they are turned upside down, either hand...
At first the TV screen turned all grey. Then the image took shape, teasingly, as if appearing from behind a slow-parting curtain that moved from left to right. While faint beep-beep-beeps were heard in the background, the picture grew in a series of vertical lines.
TV cameramen on the Lake Champlain used Polaroid cameras to snap the pictures that were scanned by Videx. Each picture was scanned for 40 seconds; each frame consisted of 400 vertical lines, compared with the 525 horizontal lines of ordinary TV images. The pictures were transmitted by radio from the...