Word: windings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bert Leston Taylor lampooned an extraordinary show by a 31-year-old painter. Except for its jeering tone, the jingle was an accurate enough statement of the creed of Painter Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), who avowedly intended to paint such things as the sensation of the wind blowing on a hill, without necessarily showing either wind or hill. Chicago was as unconvinced by Dove's works as Manhattan had been a few weeks earlier. ("They were over the heads of the people," admitted pioneer Art Dealer-Photographer Alfred Stieglitz.) Broke but not discouraged, Dove borrowed the train fare...
...Manhattan's Harlem River. Finally he managed to scrape together enough money to buy an old 42-ft. yawl from his friend and benefactor, William S. Hart, oldtime cowboy star of the silent movies. With his second wife, he cruised Long Island Sound for the next eleven years. Wind, water and sand became the essence of some of Dove's best work. Ferry Boat Wreck-Oyster Bay (1931) catches the essence of a lurking hulk beneath the sound's green water and the fiery color of rusting iron; Fog Horns (1929) is an abstraction of sound...
Fuller delights in the discomfiture of his critics. When a geodesic radome was being tested at M.I.T., he chortles, "their statistics showed it wouldn't stand up in a 15 m.p.h. wind." Fact is, radomes have stood up to blasts of 210 m.p.h...
...game was played under the worst possible conditions as winds of gale force at times whipped the playing field into a miniature sandstorm. As a result, the team that was playing into the wind was usually on the defensive and was forced to limit its offense to a series of breaks...
thief crook cynic (swimfloatdrifting fragment of heaven) trickstervillain raucous rogue & vivid voltaire you beautiful anarchist (i salute thee dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backwar