Word: clime
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...content with a rented room by the seashore on their holidays; more and more yearn for their own cabin on Mosquito Lake. Older people who once took it for granted that they would move in with reluctant sons and daughters after retirement now count on relaxing in some sunny clime on the beaches and golf courses of Senior Citizen Acres. "Even if we attain zero population growth, we will continue to spread out across our open land like a tidal wave," says Dartmouth Geographer Robert B. Simpson. "Our demand for land per capita is increasing even more rapidly than...
...rule, the rivets and nails lhat hold the work together are left exposed because they make the work reminiscent of "machines that do something." Cristobal, for instance, is built of red, white and blue vinyl and is meant to suggest "the side of a freighter" going to some distant clime...
...them-are being installed, and Cavalrymen can tune in to Big Valley Radio, a twelve-hour FM station built by the troopers from scrounged equipment and featuring mainly rock 'n' roll tapes contributed by the men themselves. In the heat of An Khe's sunny clime, ice is still a luxury. When the Cav arrived, a local entrepreneur hauled in ice from Pleiku every day, most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show up, and troopers found his creaky, decrepit truck leaking...
...Frank's Restaurant, crowded with white merchants at lunchtime, but thronged at dinnertime with middle-class Negroes, who are served with unctuous concern by white waiters. Here is Blumstein's, the only real department store in Harlem, but hardly a match for a midtown five and clime. And here is the Baby Grand, where Nipsey Russell's successor, Comedian Ray Scott, folds his hands, raises his eyes and beseeches...
...casual eye, West and East seemed much the same. And why not? A soup can is a soup can, whatever the clime. Like their New York counterparts, California pop painters gaze not upon nature or the human form but upon the most banal man-made objects or the most routine images of everyday life-a milk bottle, an advertising trademark, a scrap from a comic strip. These things are the same all over the nation; here indeed is expectable conformity. But upon closer scrutiny the Californians shared common aspects and a sort of group triumph: their stuff was even drearier...