Word: chromes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Burk Uzzle, a former Life photographer and current member of Magnum Photos, Inc., leads us on a tour of pop and chrome America. Oblique lines on a parking lot lead us to a lone horse-rider on blacktop; an arrow directs us past a rooster on a traffic island. Emphasizing design and pure form, Uzzle illustrates an econoline van making it a highly disciplined composition--circular wheels, white slab body that flows into each white side of the frame, and black geometric solids surround the white...