Word: tracers
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...boyish, lean Texan, now 38, is thus the most relentless experimenter in U.S. art. Experiment has led him to make much coy or trashy art, but also it has eventually led him to such original and important work as Tracer (opposite page). He won the Venice Biennale this summer, and his works are now as well known in London and Tokyo as in New York. He and his friend Jasper Johns are the leading painters of their generation...
Juxtaposed in Tracer are Army helicopters, a Rubens nude, a bald eagle, a street scene, all balanced in colorful harmonies and anchored by skeletal perspective boxes. As pure forms in relation, they make amusing pictorial sense-the ethereal blue nude seated on a parti-colored pedestal. There is no hidden allegory-no esoteric relationship between the birds and the helicopters. No set of footnotes is needed to explain the picture. Still, the images come from the real world and therefore evoke, as Rauschenberg's dealer, Leo Castelli, puts it, "something deeper, more visceral than pure optics...
...leaders made a stand at Baraka. Sending Mba off under guard to a village near Dr. Albert Schweitzer's hospital at Lambarene, the rebels prepared to meet the imminent French attack. It came next morning as French fighters stooped like falcons from the tropic sky, sent ball and tracer lashing into the army camp...
...objective was to destroy a guerrilla training camp and supply depot on the island, which was defended by a battalion of Viet Cong troops. As orange tracer bullets streaked into the sky from Communist foxholes, a turbine-powered, UH-1A ("Huey") support helicopter, laden with rockets, fluttered down to "zap" the enemy. Suddenly the Huey was hit, and exploded in a ball of flame; the four Americans aboard, and their Vietnamese crewman, never had a chance. As the battle blazed, the desperate Viet Cong poured murderous fire into the other whirlybirds. Fourteen more were hit but limped back to Saigon...
...today's rapidly advancing technology, where the products are often too complex or too expensive to test by such methods, industry's scientists are turning to a new and promising science called nondestructive testing. They are using X rays, ultrasonics, magnetic pa ticles, dyes and tracer gases to spy out flaws and weaknesses that affect quality or safety - and doing it without so much as scratching the products...