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...savagery in the same issue in which you have a certain "French Flower" asking whether it is Christian to torture one's enemies, and concluding that it is. I cannot muster any greater horror for the African style of madness than for that of Western culture. Plastic bombs seem to be better mutilators than do knives...
...rivers and canals. As the years passed, Mondrian began to strip awyay the outer layers of nature to reveal its skeletal geometry. A tree was not made up of a trunk and branches but of horizontals and verticals. When Mondrian painted a flower, he was primarily interested in its "plastic structure...
...city had its rhythm, and this Mondrian tried to reproduce in his painting of New York, one of the last things he did before his death of pneumonia in 1944. In the Janis show, two unfinished paintings reveal the struggle that went into such a work. Mondrian used plastic tapes while trying to find the right design; he would lay them out, remove them, lay them out again. Where must this line cross that? How far should this color be from another? In any painting these are important decisions; in a Mondrian they are crucial...
...operation began when a Thor rocket took off from Cape Canaveral just before dawn carrying a canister containing a tightly folded deflated balloon of plastic film and aluminum foil. This was Echo A12, an experimental successor to Echo I, the 100-ft. radio-reflector that was launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...
...tenth largest industrial complex in the world and the second largest outside the U.S.,* with assets of $3 billion, 162,000 employees in Britain and more than 52,000 abroad. The combined company would control some 25% of Britain's production of paint, more than 50% of its plastic film, and 90% of its output of man-made fibers. Overseas the firm would do business through a maze of satellites in 40 countries, including a $10 million Courtaulds viscose plant near Mobile, Ala., chemical companies in six South American and twelve Asian countries. Presiding over it all would...