Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hues no longer dishonestly brilliant, and can see things in virtual darkness? And why, if he must "get back to the image.'' does he not at least employ the gains of imagination and emotion brought to painting by impressionism, surrealism and abstraction? A picture called The Window Box, on display at Manhattan's Maynard Walker Gallery last week, gives persuasive answers to both questions. In it is a little girl, perhaps sent upstairs for an hour of penance, who dimly but fearfully perceives the end of her innocence. The picture has charm and-in the dark room...
...Window in the Eye. Dr. Kaufman decided to try 5-iodo-2´-deoxyuridine (or IDU), a close chemical kin to 5-fluoro-2´-deoxyuridine (or FUDR ), one of the drugs given to House Speaker Sam Rayburn in his last illness. These chemicals were developed in the hope that cancer cells would be fooled into using them instead of normal metabolic building blocks, which they closely resemble. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that cells invaded by viruses might react the same way, and thus be saved from helping the virus to reproduce...
...chemical that behaves differently in normal and diseased cells, or to find a part of the body in which the chemical acts against the virus without damaging cells. Such a part of the body is the eye. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that since the cornea, a kind of plastic window, has no blood supply, its cells might be more receptive to the effects of the drug. Kaufman's hunch, tested in rabbits, proved right in humans...
When he finds himself on a collision course with a ferryboat. Captain Foglemayer sticks his head out of the window and hollers: "Get outa da way, ya punk!'' When he loses his broad overboard, he squalls: "Make a U-turn!" When he gets caught in a passing hurricane, he lashes himself to the wheel-which proceeds to spin like...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is as enjoyable as its title is long. Rising from window washer to chairman of the board, Robert Morse is a comic marvel of apple-cheeked guile and flaming self-adoration...