Word: clambering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, J. B. Blunk's "seating sculpture" was only spottily polished for showing off redwood grains. Blunk took a huge chunk of redwood and hacked and carved it so at least four people can clamber over, sit on, put their hand through and lie down on it at once...
...week," he declares, "I'd rather have a Marine officer handling a roundup than a farmer." He is just as tough with his clients. Those who visit Oak Hill, Oppenheimer's 600-acre spread outside Kansas City, are usually invited to jump, crawl and clamber through an obstacle course not unlike the one at the Marine training base at Quantico...
...Falling Shoestring Potatoes, and his plaster Pecan Pie. They poked their fingers into the spongelike walls of Harold Paris' Pantomina llluma, a "feelies" room containing $10,000 worth of molded, twisted and flat rubber and polyurethane, tensor lights and stainless steel. Grandmothers cheerfully took off their shoes to clamber around in Lucas Samaras' glittering, mirror-encrusted Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit warren, Corridor, 1967. Hippies gazed dreamily through the barred door of Edward Kienholz's The State Hospital into a Lysol-scented interior where lay the pathetic form of a lunatic...
...combat terrain, U.S. troops have to develop all types of tricky tactics. A 32-man reconnaissance company of the 9th Cavalry Regiment has a new technique for getting out of their helicopters even before they land. In unsecured areas where the enemy may be lying in wait, the troops clamber out on the skids, and as the chopper flutters down to five or six feet above the landing area, they jump. They call themselves the "Headhunters...
...real freedom, according to the Mods. "Like, everybody should have a couple of different bags," says Larry. So clamber out of the tweed bag, baby. Mod can be creative. "I don't believe in this color combination bit," says Larry as he touches his wide tie, blue polka dots on a green background. "The other day I had on a plaid vest, a granny print shirt and paisley bell-bottoms. Everyone knows you don't wear plaid and paisley and granny print together. But it was groovy. I was digging the patterns...