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These were stores which sold things like love beads and candles and dayglo posters, and of them all, only The Truc stands erect. Legend and lore tells us these small businesses were merchandisers of "the movement," run by classy entrepeneurs who saw a gold mine in the nation's dissident youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Once and Future Folk Scene | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...very end of the play, after each couple has been united, the actors--in stark white or black costumes till then--remove their robes to reveal bright, almost dayglo renaissance costumes. Like the discarded scripts at the beginning, Sellars undoubtedly meant this touch to say to the audience, "This is what I could have done, but that would have been boring...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Dons, Dummies and Directors | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

...high, or 13 ft. longer than its namesake, the U.S.A.F.'s new variable-winged jet fighter-bomber. The painting is made up of 51 panels, some aluminum, and uses a side view of the jet as a background for a grab bag of contemporary images in phosphorescent Dayglo colors-a Firestone tire, an umbrella superimposed on a nuclear mushroom cloud, giant light bulbs, a beaming six-year-old under the chrome busby of a hair dryer-all executed in Rosenquist's precise realistic style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop: Bing-Bang Landscapes | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...meticulous know-how is the way its members tackled the matter of bumper stickers. First they tested the different methods of attaching a sign to a bumper-string, elastic, clips, hooks, adhesive. Having decided adhesive was most lasting, they began testing surfaces, determined on a kind called "Dayglo" which shines in sunlight or headlight. Dayglo comes in single, double and triple screen, hence more testing and the decision to use double. To find the best adhesive, lots of 25,000 were tested in various cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Evangelist | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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