Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaping his forms, Segal is preoccupied with what he calls "gesture." He does not mean the wave of a hand or the flick of a wrist, but rather the whole attitude of the body. Says he: "You have to know the gesture you want, and then there's always the question of whether the human being can hold that gesture for the 20 minutes it takes the plaster to dry." The result is that artificial postures disappear, and his models slump into poses that are brutally natural. "People have attitudes locked up in their bodies, and you have...
...organic form, that relaxes appropriately into an almost-horizontal at the end of the quotation. The letters deviate from typographic perfection to express something very human. Outlined in black ink, they graduate from yellow-green-yellow through yellow-green to a green "sea," composed with curlicue serifs which suggest wave crests...
Tunes all this: FM for fine music; AM for news, sports and music; Marine (2-4 MHz) for ship-to-shore and weather; Long Wave (150-400 KHz) Aircraft Band; Short Wave (4.2-17.9 MHz); Amateur and foreign broadcasts in 7 bands...
OVER TWENTY YEARS have passed since Alistair Cooke, now The Guardian's chief American correspondent, began beaming his Sunday night broadcasts to BBC listeners over the globe. Unless you have a good short wave radio, it's impossible to listen to them in the U.S. Which is a pity for, as this collection of 42 such "Letters from America" convincingly demonstrates, Cooke has a keen eye for America and the variety of her people...
...after you've finished reading it, you may even begin looking at catalogs to find a good short wave radio...