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...materials is instinctively exquisite. A piece like Untitled, 1970 (see color page) seems bald at first-a run of identical flat sheets of galvanized iron, each 5 ft. by 4 ft., along the gallery wall. Then you notice the silvery flakes and washes caused by the galvanizing bath, rising through the darker metal and catching the light like mica, and that sense of program and frigidity goes. Says Judd: "There is a lot more variety in my work than is casually apparent." As indeed there is; for Judd's interrogation of sculpture has trimmed, but not excluded, its sensual...
...CORK LINING. Ettore Sottsass Jr., a thoughtful Milanese designer intent upon creating an environment that is a "diagram of psychic processes, a therapeutic act," is now completing a Milan apartment lined with cork-faced linoleum, without furniture save for kitchen and bath fixtures...
...toilet is enclosed in an undulate black fiber-glass column that rises to the ceiling. There are no walls between sleeping, living and bath areas, which are raised two steps above the sitting and eating zones...
...pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically, the doctors can identify nearly 70 different genetic disorders, most of them serious...
...Komsomolsky Prospekt, enabling the average Soviet citizen to buy fresh caviar for the first time in recent years. Across from Moscow's city hall, an Italian-built, self-service supermarket went into operation, offering Bulgarian chickens, Spanish oranges, Moroccan sardines. Established shops blossomed with chinaware, meat grinders, bath towels and other goods that have long been scarce...