Word: dandelion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most widely used herbicide, 2, 4-D; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Experimenting with synthetic plant hormones, Jones found that one killed broad-leaved plants instead of stimulating growth, leaving such narrow-leaved plants as corn unscathed; it soon became the standard ingredient in preparations for controlling poison ivy and dandelion, paved the way for a host of other weed killers...
Shooting Particles. Though his constructions often resemble something in nature-a huge sun, a giant dandelion, a weeping willow-Bertoia does not work directly from nature. Usually he places a piece of paper over an inked surface and with a wire brush gently traces out a quick, freehand design. For more solid forms he may press the paper with his fingers, or use a piece of metal to print a sharp edge. When the design pleases him, he tries to reproduce it in metal, twisting and bending bunches of rods this way and that. As he wrestles with...