Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Along 16th Street all the world's churches seem to have convened for a permanent caucus - Mormon, Universalist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Swedenborgian. There are many distinctive areas like this. Glen Echo is an amusement park that went out of business in 1968. Now arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during...
...glass jar, an echo of a lost America...
...issues, the candidates often seem to echo the platform of the party to which they do not belong. Durkin, for example, backs a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, while Rudman is against it. More true to his party, Durkin opposes oil price deregulation and attacks the oil companies every chance he gets--a popular thing to do in New Hampshire, whose residents pay more for home heating oil than citizens in many other states. Rudman favors deregulation but also suggests using a windfall profits tax on the oil companies to help pay the cost of heating oil for the poor...
Sagan published his first paper at 22. Its title was an echo from his days with Muller and a sign of his growing interest in exobiology: "Radiation and the Origin of the Gene." A key point was that radiation may have been the trigger for the combination of the first DNA molecules. Eventually some 300 more papers would follow, including a particularly brilliant bit of deduction about the planet Venus. At the time, many scientists still regarded Venus as a kind of sister planet of the earth with a benign climate. But radio emissions from the planet were hinting...
...confidence to deal with his specifically American motifs. By no stretch of the imagination could Hopper be called an avant-gardist. Not a canvas in the Whitney's show suggests the influence of cubism, let alone abstract art, although one might be able to detect some remote Fauve echo-perhaps through Albert Marquet, whose work he saw in Paris-in Hopper's fondness for relieving a low-toned background with a sudden distant poke of primary color: a coat, a flag or the red side of a brick chimney...