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...propaganda--Heartfield and Georg Grosz each have their Hitler caricatures, but the meat of Weimar thought is elsewhere. Technology is everywhere: in the medium of photography, in Bauhaus design, in the mannequins of Josef Albers and Oskar Schlemmer, in the pipes and puppets in the portraiture section. The noisy whirligig of modern technology is both embraced in dada photo-montages of basketball-headed humanoids and controlled through the neat, organized designs of Herbert Bayer's movie house and exhibition pavilion, diagrams simultaneously full of primary color and filled with stark black lines. In responding to industrialized modern culture so precociously...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WEIMAR at the BUSCH-REISINGER | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...first decade, the center's collection has grown to include 25,000 titles. The true measure of its achievement is comparative: scholars estimate that only about 40,000 works were ever printed in Yiddish. With these riches, the center has become a whirligig of cultural promotion, keeping pace with a resurgent interest in Yiddish around the world. It runs an adult-education seminar and a student-intern program, and, using Yiddish-speaking actors in Israel, is taping entire novels. This profusion delights Lansky, whose accomplishments were recognized last July by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amherst, Massachusetts | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...Before Reykjavik, the Soviets had indicated that they would be willing to make an interim deal on INF divorced of strategic and defensive issues. The American game plan had been to decouple as many issues as possible from the prickly SDI dispute. But Gorbachev enticed the Americans into a whirligig of negotiations with his sweeping proposals. Only toward the end, when U.S. and Soviet positions overlapped on nearly all non-SDI issues, did it become clear just how adamant the Soviets were on linking the entire package to the scuttling of Star Wars. "Before Reykjavik, the Soviets were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was It All a Soviet Sting? | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...launched by Japan, two by the Soviet Union and one by the eleven nations of the European Space Agency (ESA). The close encounters were set for March because that is when the comet passes through earth's orbital plane, the same level in which the spacecraft travel. Over several whirligig days, the flotilla will scrutinize the comet in exhaustive detail, from the fuzzy gaseous cloud that surrounds its icy nucleus to the two tails that by then will be streaming for millions of miles behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greeting Halley's Comet | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...lobby of Building No. 391 at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory near San Francisco stands a cast-iron sculpture of Shiva, the multiarmed god whose whirligig dances, according to Hindu tradition, alternately create and destroy all earthly life. Near by is a wood-and-plastic model of Nova, the world's most powerful laser, which is housed in cavernous quarters the size of a football field. The juxtaposition of the two objects is apt, and for several reasons. Like Shiva, the $176 million laser bristles with its equivalent of arms: ten bright blue tubes, each a conduit for an intense laser beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Hopes for a Super Nova | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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