Word: cubes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deathtrap is enjoyable, if easily forgotten. That its advertisements feature a giant rubik's cube probably says a lot about the film. You might not guess its first few moves, but once on your way things seem to get more and more obvious. A pleasant experience, if not a lasting one. And the novelty soon wears...
...Florida time again, and that means the Third Annual Crimson Sports Cube guide to the Sunshine State. Last year we told you all about where to go and how to get there. Copies of that issue are available, care of me, for one dollar...
...Both phenomena mirror our self-image as we like it best--well-groomed and creative. Like the beggar watching someone else speed by in a limousine, the clever device prompts an "I could have done that" response. If creativity is the human ability to see pattern in chaos, the cube restores our flagging hope in our own imagination as it distracts us from an untidy world...
MAINLY, THE CUBE is a conversation piece, like the wastebasket collages of Picasso and Braque. It may or may not reflect the dimensionality of man's existence, the shape of our times, or the pretentiousness of slim gold-tipped cigarettes. A bauble that combines the simplicity of pet rocks with engineering savvy, the Cube gratifies our desire for bric-a-brac. In a society where even most of the poor can watch television dreams, the struggle for survival which engages most of humanity can be less squarely faced. Accordingly, boredom, especially the middle class Roman kind which languidly consumers grapes...
...life would be drab otherwise. Were the puzzle not useless enough, the craze has spawned several books which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American...