Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest Sears stores are in Troy, N.Y., and Roseville, Mich. The most profitable one is in Honolulu. The smaller catalog stores like the one in Lawrence, Kans., have only a counter stacked with the latest "wish book," other catalogs, a few appliances on display and a life-size cardboard cutout of Tiegs...
...fans. They are fascinating. The dormitories and other buildings given over to a "main street" of shops, a moviehouse, a beauty parlor and a disco have been redone in a profusion of violet squares, vermilion triangles and aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park. Although not Disneyland so much as Coney Island...
...something a ten-year-old would do," complained Activist Doris Anderson. Other prospective victims designed a "bum wrap," special form-fitting cardboard shield to be worn as a rear guard against the Turner touch. The glad-hander's explanation of his cheekiness: "I'm a hugger. I'm a tactile politician I'm reaching out to people...
Instead of monumental stone and steel, the design features banners, bunting and balloons fluttering in the wind, lightweight fantasy structures jutting into the sky, odd-shaped cardboard-and-fabric tents sheltering the crowds. What first strikes the eye is the color scheme created by Deborah Sussman, the graphic designer in charge of all the Olympic imagery. Says Sussman: "The palette consists of unexpected, stimulating juxtapositions that instantly separate the Olympic pageantry from the everyday environment, the drabness of permanent institutions, industries, streets-hot magenta, vermilion and chrome yellow, set off by aqua. They are Mediterranean colors but also suggest Mexican...
...colors are splashed over a sort of kit of parts devised by Supervising Architect Jon Jerde: structural elements have been combined in various ways to mark entrances, for example, or to form information booths and food stands. Among the most striking are striped cardboard columns known as Sonotubes and normally used in making concrete forms, which give stature to rented tents, support cloth pyramids, and generally lend settings color, shape and order. Rented steel scaffolding has been bolted into lighthearted, ephemeral structures from which fabric waves. Thin, tubular balloons, some hundreds of feet long, sway in the air like giant...