Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Painter Riley's development spans a ten-year arc from the aggressiveness of her early black-and-white images to the imperiled quiet of such new stripe paintings as Apprehend, 1970. First reactions to her work may run from puzzlement to nausea. But Riley has always denied she means to hurt the eyes, aiming only for "a stimulating, an active, a vibrating pleasure." But not relaxation -the pleasure is existential, a tuning of the consciousness. In a picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting...
Muffling stray interference will be a more difficult job. Most of the new electronic gadgetry-color TV sets, arc welders, diathermy machines-are potential electromagnetic polluters. As the Government's watchdog over the air waves, the Federal Communications Commission was recently authorized to take stiffer action against manufacturers of interference-causing equipment. But even though investigations of complaints have already been increased sharply, the FCC does not expect to achieve what engineers call electromagnetic compatibility very soon. "The smog will be with us for a long time," says one FCC official. "We'll have to suffer with...
...arrival from Asia Minor of Vibrio cholerae, a comma-shaped bacillus that is the cause of the first serious outbreak of cholera in several years. So far, more than 3,000 cases, including at least 100 resulting in death, have been reported in a dozen countries along an arc that stretches from Dubai on the Persian Gulf to Accra on the west coast of Africa...
...were marked with the authoritative vision of a minor master. With great tact, Porter blended Hawaiian volcanoes and exotic foliage with views of neat New England farms and valleys. The murals he painted in 1838 for Dr. Francis Howe in Westwood, Mass., are typical. Simple devices create perspective: the arc of a hill, an angled fence, the diminishing height of trees. The viewer feels that he has actually stepped into the landscape. Porter's murals customarily covered every square inch of the wall with a rustic version of trompe 1'oeil that prefigures William Harnett and John Peto...
Yossarian's mind circles five times to that instant in which McWatt calls out, "Help him!" Each time Yossarian's arc of memory lengthens as he bends to aid the mortally wounded Snowden ?until at last he sees the man's flesh torn away and his insides pour out. It is at once the film's most repulsive and instructive moment. From that time Yossarian cannot accept the escape bargain his superiors finally offer him: "All you have to do is like us." He cannot betray his fellow victims of what Norman Mailer called "exquisite totalitarianism." It is then...