Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chocolates & Chaos. High on the list of Düsseldorfs innovators to gain international recognition over the past decade are Heinz Mack, 36, Otto Piene, 39, and Günther Uecker, 37 (see color pages). The three young "idealists" joined together as the Group Zero in 1958; their aim, according to Uecker, was to create "a white world" out of light, motion and other optical effects, and Zero presaged the founding of half a dozen other experimental groups in as many different countries. Another leader is Painter Gerhard Richter, enigmatic 1960 fugitive from East Germany's socialist realism, whose...
...appointment to the academy in 1961 was the starting signal for avant-garde forces to coalesce in Dusseldorf. Other observers give much credit to Schmela, who opened his gallery in 1957 in the picturesque Altstadt quarter and introduced the city to most of its comers, from Group Zero to Surrealist Konrad Klapheck, a bespectacled young man who paints typewriters, telephones, boots, bicycle bells and shower heads as though they had eyes, ears and affections of their...
Forward to Zero. To most artists, however, the real lure is Düsseldorfs tantalizing whiff of Zeitgeist. The city's brusque hurly-burly provides both their modern subject matter and technological means for expressing their art. Gotthard Graubner, an abstractionist, for example, paints on huge, cloudlike formations of polyester produced at nearby factories. Peter Brüning, who like Winfred Gaul, is fascinated with traffic and touring maps, points out that he lives in Düsseldorf because it is the geographical center of a "seemingly endless area where roads become the interconnecting arteries between every possible manifestation...
...House froze new commitments to a pet Administration scheme to subsidize the rents of poor families in privately owned, nonprofit housing projects. The White House had requested $40 million for fiscal 1968, saw that figure cut to $10 million by the Appropriations Committee and then to zero on the House floor. The Republican-led opposition came close to garroting the model-cities program as well. President Johnson had requested $662 million for his showcase exercise in creative federalism, which is aimed at encouraging cities to draw up their own plans for the rehabilitation of neighborhoods. The Appropriations Committee excised nearly...
Nine times in the past 4,000,000 years or so, the earth's magnetic field has completely reversed. The North Pole became the South Pole, the South Pole the North. During these reversals, scientists theorize, the intensity of the earth's magnetic field actually decreased to zero, then built back up with opposite polarity. During the temporary absence of a strong magnetic field, the earth was left without its protective shield; as a consequence, cosmic-ray particles that were normally deflected by the magnetic field could shower through the atmosphere. The result may have been the destruction...