Word: willem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lockheed scandal may prove to be the worst thing to happen to the Dutch monarchy since Parliament took over effective governing power from King Willem II in 1848. More and more Dutchmen are wondering whether their much beloved Queen Juliana will abdicate in the wake of accusations that her husband, Prince Bernhard, took $1.1 million from Lockheed to influence government decisions regarding the Starfighter jets used by the Dutch air force. Should that happen, the monarchy would fall to Juliana's daughter Beatrix, 38, and her husband. Prince Claus...
Still, the suitcase kidney is only an interim solution. Doctors hope ultimately for a machine so small and efficient that it would be inconspicuous when worn. The University of Utah's Dr. Willem Kolff, inventor of the original dialysis machine, reports progress toward that goal. He and his collaborators have developed an 8-lb. machine dubbed WAK (for wearable artificial kidney) that lets a patient walk around periodically during dialysis while it is hung from a shoulder band or strapped to the chest...
Sifting through old papers in a Dutch astronomy laboratory, scientists came across an unexpected treasure: 17 letters and postcards written by Albert Einstein between 1916 and 1918 to his friend the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willem de Sitter. The discovery, reported in Nature, reveals an esoteric interchange between the two men about the theory of relativity. Einstein's observations range from the specific (he computed the radius of the universe as R=10' lightyears) to the metaphoric ("I compare space to a cloth ...") to the peevish ("Your solution corresponds to no physical possibility"). But the two scholars...
...newspapers and gaudy lathers of pigment, he put together the "combine paintings" that, so much later, remain his best-known works. How outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked in 1959! What perversity seemed to lurk behind Rauschenberg's gesture of erasing a drawing by Willem de Kooning and exhibiting the sheet! How dandyist an affront to spontaneous sincerity, the idea of painting two abstract expressionist canvases, Factum I and Factum II, almost identical down to the last drip...
...during this time - ten years -there was a slow gathering of opinion that Rauschenberg's art was on the decline. Like Willem de Kooning, he be came one of those major figures whose last show is always fated to be thought his worst. The reason was that no later performance could ever measure up to the exaggerations of praise cast on their early work. Meantime, Rauschenberg, mainly through his collaborations with the Los Angeles printmaking firm of Gemini G.E.L., had developed into one of the few major graphic artists in Amer ica. The print suited his liking for swift...