Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Sunday afternoon a creaky, chrome-plated, bus stood shaking in front of the Sheraton-Plaza. Inside were 20 eager tourists, a fat, jolly, swarthy tourguide who wore wrap around sun-glasses, and an ernest, young busdriver who sat hunched possessively over his steering wheel. Tour No. 2 of the Gray Lines Sightseeing Bus Company entitled "Contemporary Education & Cultural Boston & Cambridge" was about to begin...
What dealt a death blow to the mestizo tradition was the introduction of cheap chrome lithographs in the 19th century. At the same time, as silver became scarcer and more expensive, the lower classes increasingly turned to chinaware and crockery. Early mestizo art became a collector's item, disappeared into wealthy homes, or was guarded by churches and convents. Many objects in the Smithsonian exhibition are being loaned for the first time in centuries. After the Metropolitan's showing, the exhibition will be put on view in Lima, enabling Peruvians to rediscover the full range of their forefathers...
Computer Console. The big surprise for many is that so many prizewinning objects are both readily available and often cheap as well: a 40? polypropolene valve for home water heaters; Neal Small's cleanly domed $90 chrome lamp; and a $7.95 set of "Blockmobile" cubes that double as trees, houses or vehicles. Offsetting what might otherwise be painfully stark functionalism are restrained psychedelic and op-art motifs. New plastics and transistors are responsible for many of the objects' compactness. Advanced technology and electronics also play a role in dozens of esoteric devices, ranging from a portable medical ventilator...
...made boss of the drooping Pontiac Division. His first move was to order styling changes on the 1957 model to rid Pontiac of its "grandma" image-something that few automen would have dared just 60 days away from volume production. Off came two pieces of chrome across the hood and trunk lid-no matter that his fa ther had introduced them in 1935. Next, Knudsen reached for what the youth of the day wanted. He brought out a 21 in. wider and flashier model to appeal to young drivers. Soon, Pontiac sales jumped from sixth place to third...
...along with the Olivetti typewriter and Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair, was voted one of the ten best designs of modern times, sold only 5,300 after Edsel Ford introduced it in 1939. The Mark II, which featured simply sculptured "slab sides" instead of the chrome that was the rage in Detroit in 1956, sold 3,000 over a two-year life span. But Ford estimates that 15,000 Mark IIIs will be sold in the car's first year. Beautiful people have begun to buy beautiful Mark IIIs even before the formal introduction. Entertainer Sammy...