Word: venus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Masuo Ikeda: Three Portfolois--"Traveller's Joy", "Seven Deadly Sins", and "Venus". Art/Asia Gallery, 49 Palmer St. Cambridge, through June...
...VIEW OF VENUS. Most cosmologists consider earth to be the only planet in the solar system that is still being altered by geologic processes. But Michael Malin of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., believes Venus may also be active. The researcher bases his thoughts about the dynamism of Venus on observations made by others through the huge radio telescope at Goldstone, Calif. One series of shots of Venus' surface shows a vast, troughlike depression about three-quarters of a mile long and 200 yds. wide; another shows, on an otherwise smooth plain, a cluster...
FROZEN HELL. The planet named for the Greek god of the underworld is considerably colder than Venus. Ever since Pluto was first discovered in 1930, scientists have wondered why the planet, which lies on the outermost reaches of the solar system, shines so brightly. Three scientists from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy have now come up with an answer. Theorizing that Pluto is far enough from the sun to escape its heat and thus likely to be covered by ice, the trio used the telescope at Kitt Peak, Ariz., to study the planet through different filters...
...DiMaggio looked good-slim, dignified, younger than his 61 years, very classy. When DiMaggio was in kindergarten, the other kids probably came up to him and said, "Joe, you look good." When DiMaggio visits the Louvre, if he does, the Venus de Milo probably waits until they are alone and whispers, "Joe, you look good." "Welcome back, Joe," said several fans who happened to run into him and to remember back to the '40s, when he was making impossible catches with the poise of Charles Boyer stealing jewels. After DiMaggio had thanked them and moved away, the fans said...
...curiously wistful. Hiram Powers' The Greek Slave was the first internationally famous work of art produced by an American; when it toured the U.S. in 1847 it created a sensation and people queued to see it. Yet today, as one gazes on this chaste pastiche of the Medici Venus, it seems more an anthropological document and less a work of art than most Alaskan carvings. The problem, of course, is not that neoclassicism is remote from us but that the American version of it was unimpressive...