Word: ballooned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Piene, 42, who was a founder member of kinetic art's Group Zero and now works with M.I.T.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, had been asked to put on an outdoor sculptural event by Citything, Pittsburgh's public arts program. The resulting balloon show lasted three days, cost contributors around $5,000 in cash and another $4,000 in materials and services...
...biggest target of all was the automobile. In Danbury, Conn., students made ready to perform the now popular ritual of burying an internal-combustion engine. At Wayne State University they marshaled pickets for General Motors' headquarters (see BUSINESS). Alternate modes of nonpolluting transportation called for "bike-ins," balloon ascensions and pedestrian parades. Even cities joined the act. New York announced a ban on cars and the creation of pedestrian malls along 14th Street and a 45-block stretch of Fifth Avenue. Miami, never to be outdone, promised prizes to the "most polluted" floats in a huge, car-free "Dead...