Word: aluminum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arts wonder from having a gargantuan 54- story modernist tower built over its waiting room. And it was a mere 20 years ago, give or take, that St. Louis razed 40 quaint blocks of riverfront warehouses; that Pasadena, Calif., tore up a fine commercial neighborhood to build a standard aluminum shopping mall; that Madison, Wis., let Burger King raze an 1850s stone house for its headquarters; that New York City tore down McKim, Mead and White's glorious Pennsylvania Station...
...patented the tin can in 1810, the world was changed forever. Canning revolutionized life on the farm, in the kitchen, on the battlefield. In the 20th century, life would seem primitive and deprived without cans. In 1986 some 102 billion canned items were manufactured. One category of container, the aluminum easy-open beverage can (69 billion produced last year), has so proliferated that the mere existence of empties has engendered a brand-new folk industry. Can picking, some call...
...industry racks up impressive returns. Last year 33.3 billion aluminum beverage cans were recovered. One giant can producer, Reynolds Metals, paid nearly $93 million to recyclers, while taking in some 305 million lbs. of aluminum, enough to make nearly 8 billion cans...
Sometimes these pickers seem more casual than they turn out to be. Take Alberta Freeman, 55, who turns up at a recycling trailer in a New Orleans supermarket parking lot with 30-gal. garbage bags bulging with aluminum cans. Freeman, her daughter, a daughter-in-law and eleven grandchildren collaborate in can picking. Last year the family cleared some $500, which Grandma naturally spent on the grandchildren...
...have to take practical lessons from old masters like Rubens and Caravaggio; it must find an "independent pictorial space to establish its ties with the everyday space of perceived reality." This ran counter to the whole argument of American formalism -- and of the movement with which his early black, aluminum and copper stripes had been associated, minimalism -- which strove to isolate the space of pictures from that of the real world. The results were a set of brilliantly colored oblique reliefs, the Brazilian paintings of 1974-75, followed by the Exotic Birds in 1976-80: images so unexpected that Rubin...