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...trees and stuffed elk heads, the FAA last month flatly prohibited carry-on luggage too big to fit beneath seats (which generally accommodate packages 9 in. high, 13 in. wide, 23 in. long). As one result, American Airlines has stocked O'Hare Airport in Chicago with hundreds of cardboard containers for items plucked from their customers' arms. As another result, Violinist Emery Deutsch was recently forced to pay an extra half fare for a seat to carry his $40,000 Guarnerius from New York to Chicago. One airline went so far as to refuse to let a woman...
...corner of Jersey and Brook-line, a lone hawker stands shivering. "Get your girl a souvenir garter," he barks, waving a cardboard with a lone garter. "Get your genuine World Series garter, last one left." There are no takers...
...effort. For the past two months, three to seven workmen have been saw ing, painting, sweating and swearing in the museum's basement and on the main floor. Slowly the massive open construction took on the shape dictated by Smith's original small-scale cardboard model; each part was hinged together to form a baroque network of flowing spaces, held together primarily by tension and hauled into place by hoists. Now installed, the full-scale model cost $6,000; a metal version would have gone as high...
...first sculpture was executed in 1962, when he was teaching basic design at Hunter College. It was a black box. As he recalls it, his students were constructing basic designs out of flip-top cigarette boxes. Tony had them enlarge their designs five times in cardboard to get the effect of added scale. Then one day his eye was caught by a black file box on a colleague's desk...
Orange. And Tony has the freedom and the privacy to wander down to his sparsely furnished basement workroom, which looks very much like a draftsman's workshop with its cardboard models, drawing board, slide rules, and rolls of blueprints...