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...survivors, vast numbers displaced by the terror and the bombs have moved to special camps or have taken refuge in the filthy shantytowns of cardboard and corrugated tin that embrace the outskirts of all the major cities. A few find ways to earn a little money, although jobs are harder to find now that the G.I.s are leaving Viet Nam. Most are merely waiting for the chance to go home...
...Cardboard Steel. Panel Chairman Fred Rogers, producer of one of television's leading children's programs, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, says: "Commercials stress that in order to play you need a toy, that your mental resources are not enough." Another panelist, Mrs. Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street, worries about the distortions in children's ads. "The product," she notes, "looks attractive on the screen because the cardboard materials are shiny and made to look like steel...
Beguiling Maidens. "Anything that was flat, I painted a picture on," recalls Darling, his blue eyes glowing. On his pitched roof, he painted an impressionistic harbor scene with sailboats, white mountains and a shining lighthouse that can be seen two blocks away. He soon discovered that the compressed cardboard backs of old television sets had just the right absorptive quality for the semigloss house paint he favored; he painted scenes on as many of these cardboard backs as he could get his hands on, and mounted them on the outside walls of his house. In his artistic development, Darling went...
From the beginning of art history, the word sculpture has meant monoliths -continuous closed forms hewn from one block of marble or cast in one piece of bronze. Then the tin and cardboard constructions that Picasso made in 1912-14 provoked what has become a new orthodoxy: sculpture should be made of open and discontinuous forms, declaring themselves to be not one mass but a sum of parts...
Alexander switched from plastic packaging to biodegradable cardboard containers for eggs, meats and produce. To promote the recycling of waste materials, he arranged for a local citizens' group to place bins for old newspapers in his parking lots and to collect the contents for processing into blank paper. In addition to posting the phosphate content of soaps and other cleansers, Alexander tagged those that are low in phosphates with "ecology preferred" stickers. "When you buy the products we've indicated are low in phosphates," reads a point-of-sale sign, "you help decrease the amount of phosphates that...