Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suvero once declared that his work must be able "to defend itself against an unarmed man." That is a peculiar-sounding remark, evoking an image of the sculpture as punching bag. But it is of a piece with the aims and the actual look of his constructions. They are to be swung on, climbed, played with. "Mark can set kids going the way nobody else I've heard of can," says his dealer, Richard Bellamy. "His loft is always full of them...
...practice that is far more serious -the inhaling of fumes from aerosol canisius becoming a fatal fad. Youngsters seeking a high spray the mist into a bag or other container and breathe deeply. About four deaths a month are now being recorded, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The gas propellants (usually fluorocarbons) in hundreds of different kinds of household sprays can kill quickly. They are carried by the blood from the lungs to the heart, where they interrupt normal cardiac rhythm...
...pick up a loaf of bread," says Mrs. Marcia Reese, waiting in the laundromat for a load of nappies to dry. "We enjoyed the quiet last week in the woods, but until my kids are out of diapers, this is more fun." For older kids, Campland is a mixed bag. Young Jeff Andreoli complains that he cannot play baseball or football: "There's no grass here." Karen Folts, 13, thinks the pool parlor is right on: "I like this place because there's a bunch of cool guys around. When my parents go camping in the wilderness...
...desert course with Spartan regularity. When winds of up to 60 m.p.h. kicked up the sand, he donned scuba-diver goggles and kept swinging. Impressed by his determination, Whittington and his partner paid Trevino's plane fare to the 1966 U.S. Open in San Francisco. Playing with an unmatched bag of clubs ("I must have had seven different brands"), he finished 54th and was so discouraged that he refused to enter the 1967 Open. Claudia ("I'd be in jail now if it weren't for her," he says) sent in his registration anyway and shoved him off to Odessa...
Most young Americans abroad share one obsession: getting by on the least amount of money. Unlike the conspicuously consuming adult U.S. tourists of an earlier day, they spend little for gifts, souvenirs, meals or lodging. The challenge of "living free," seeing Europe on a shoestring and with a sleeping bag, has elements of reverse snobbism that appeal to the professed antimaterialistic instincts of youth. Ken Stephens, 29, of St. Petersburg, Fla., figured in Amsterdam that he can last two months on only $180. Bill Hyman, 23, said in London that he was getting by on $3 a day or less...