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Reveries by Night. There has been one big problem in appreciating Ryder's work: he painted with an utter disregard for basic technique. He piled paint layer upon layer, to thicknesses of a quarter of an inch, often returning to work on a canvas while it was still wet. He found it almost impossible to think of a painting as finished, frequently took back ones he had sold and com pletely reworked them. He called the process "ripening" and likened himself to an inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying...
...here is also rather forbidding-expanses of blackness with no stars when we're flying over the moon in daylight. You can see by the numerous craters that this planet has been bombarded through the aeons with numerous small asteroids and meteoroids pockmarking the surface every square inch...
According to theory, neutron stars are formed during the cataclysmic processes that occur in a supernova. They consist entirely of neutrons densely packed into dim spheres that are about ten miles in diameter and weigh more than 10 billion lbs. per cubic inch. Astrophysicist Gold believes that a neutron star has an in credibly intense magnetic field that traps ionized gases expelled from the supernova. As the star and its magnetic field spin, the outmost of the trapped gases are whirled at almost the speed of light until they break away, producing an intense beam of radio waves-the regularly...
...Pritchard is "a great hitter who can crunch the wide play" and has the speed to stick with a receiver coming out of the backfield. One scout ranks him with top Pro Linebackers Tommy Nobis and Dick Butkus. The only difference "is that Pritchard is one inch shorter." Enyart, who also rates high as an offensive fullback, is "a hardnosed kid who can make those snap judgments that give him a jump on the play." Known for his bone-jarring tackles, he lives up to his nickname: "Earthquake." Babich is an equally deadly tackier, but with an extra shot...
...heart of EVR is a tightly wound film, 8.75 mm. wide, that can store an astounding 180,000 separate frames on one seven-inch roll. Previously, no one had been able to compress so much film and still preserve its ability to produce clear playbacks. While working on a CBS lunar-photography project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goldmark devised a high-resolution film that can carry millions of bits of electronic information. That film has led to an even more startling breakthrough. Goldmark and his colleagues have managed to treat black-and-white film with electronic color...