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...bred content in some of our readers. One subscriber wrote: "Outraged betrayed, I went dejectedly off to bed last night. My brooding thoughts: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet, the legs of a fine old Chippendale piece replaced with chrome." This week we present another modernization of design. Before readers give us their reactions, brooding or otherwise, I thought I would explain why we considered the renovation important...
...still wear Queen Elizabeth II's monogram on their caps and the politicians seem to be dressed by Blades and Mr. Fish. The settings have the glittery, spaced-out look of a Milanese design fair-all stamped Mylar and womb-form chairs, thick glass tables, brushed aluminum and chrome, sterile perspectives of unshuttered concrete and white molded plastic. The designed artifact is to Orange what technological gadgetry was to Kubrick's 2001: a character in the drama, a mute and unblinking witness...
Drop in the Samovar. The cracks are still narrow. In 1970 the U.S. sold $118 million worth of goods to the Soviets, mostly hides, pulp, aluminum oxides and machinery. In return, Americans imported $72 million in Russian goods, principally sable skins, fuels, aluminum scrap, chrome ore and other metals. That was a mere drop in the samovar for the Soviet Union, which does about $5 billion worth of business a year with other non-Communist countries...
...will take more than talk to increase trade between the two superpowers. The U.S. presently buys caviar, sable skins, chrome, aluminum scrap and various chemicals from the Soviets, but they have little else of immediate interest to offer American importers. Soviet industrial officials are anxious to acquire high-technology American goods, particularly machine tools and computer software; however, many of the items they desire require special clearance from the Commerce Department because of alleged national security considerations...
Machined Mosaics Every art show is an archive, but none more explicitly so than the retrospective now at London's Tate Gallery. It runs from elaborate silk-screen prints dedicated to Wittgenstein to a giant chrome-plated combat boot; from a stack of bombs to a sprawling collection of clippings, toys, scraps and Mickey Mouse emblems hoarded by the artist over the past 30 years. It has all been assembled by Sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, 47, an amiable, lowering Scottish-Italian with lobster-claw hands and the build of a robot. The show, a melange of art work and subject...