Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taco on a plate is made of asphalt tile. Every object is rigidly held in place by epoxy, preserved in fiber glass, sometimes flocked to give it a mysterious felt texture. Point of it all? "People in any context are a reason for a tableau," says Kienholz, "this speaks volumes about our present society...
...complete his rendering of the environment of modern man, Antonioni uses the sounds of modern industry throughout the film. Gears creak, steam valves blow, and spiked heels click loudly on asphalt pavements. The harshness of these sounds contrasts with the soft rolling of the waves during the beach scene and with the general silence which pervades the film...
Coming into Salt Lake City Airport, United's Flight 227 pancaked heavily on asphalt 200 feet short of the concrete runway, zigzagged down the field out of control and burst into flames...
...additional Guardsmen from northern California. By Sunday night, officials planned to have at least 10,000 troops on the scene. In addition, the Pentagon ordered into Los Angeles an 840-man U.S. Marine Reserve detachment. The marines were equipped with 40,000 rounds of ammunition. Like bubbles in hot asphalt, violence popped up elsewhere across the land. The next serious outburst erupted in Chicago. It, too, started with an incident that might have passed unnoticed in a less volatile time. Answering what turned out to be a false alarm in Garfield Park, a Negro neighborhood about five miles west...
...Kitchen Gardeners. Primed by a high postwar birth rate and changes in the Soviet economy, unemployment has become particularly bothersome in Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Siberia and in the Central Asiatic Republics. Partly to blame is that old Western bugaboo, automation. When, for instance, Red planners automated the lime and asphalt plants of Leninsk in Tula province, they put half the region's unskilled laborers out of work. The Soviet Union also has a rising number of young people-many of them school dropouts-who are unable to find work because they lack the skills required by modern industry. Even...