Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable for both its lightness and its sensitivity. It never bogs down in convoluted intellectual satire, as can easily happen when a less skillful company tackles Giraudoux; yet it does sacrifice ideas for either liveliness or wistfulness. Idea, or more specifically, idealism, is not buried. Its threads are carefully woven together in the first act and triumphantly knotted in the second. Evil falls victim to its own greed, love blooms again, and innocence reawakens...
These northern Europeans, who claim as ancestors both such German expressionists as Emil Nolde and the Norwegian Edvard Munch, represent an increasingly individual point of view. Their kind of psychic improvisation takes its cue from dense color and tightly woven forest. Fundamentally passionate paint slingers, they are equally adept with lithographs, a sampling of which went on view last week in Manhattan's Lefebre Gallery. A few, such as Guggenheim International Prizewinner Karel Appel, are well known; others less publicized...
Last season King's bronzes bore the imprint of burlap, which left his witty compositions wearing a woven look. This time he leaves out the bronze, just drapes the burlap over aluminum tubing frames. The gawkish, gangling figures-some of them ceiling-tall-would be funny sacks indeed if they didn't look so sad. Through...
Once its target is located, a Skyhook rescue plane sends a 400-lb., do-it-yourself kit drifting downward by parachute. The bulky package, which is buoyant enough to float if it lands on water, contains a cylinder filled with helium and 500 ft. of woven nylon line with a special suit attached to one end, a balloon to the other. The man to be rescued must be in good enough physical shape to do a few simple things: put on the suit and inflate the balloon with helium. Once the big bag rises to the full length...
...into a position somewhat below and to the rear of the plane. The relative gentleness of the takeoff and the curved trajectory result from the interaction of several forces: the man's weight and air resistance, the speed and altitude of the plane, and the stretchability of the woven nylon line, which absorbs shock as it lengthens. Within five minutes of liftoff, the man is hoisted aboard the plane...