Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Table Volcano. A big, burly man who looks like a scholarly truck driver or an agile Bacchus, Oldenburg is shy but not modest. "I am a magician," he says. "A magician brings dead things to life." His sculptures of food, for example. Typical, terrible American cuisine fascinates him, the kinds of things dieters like Oldenburg himself try to avoid: a wedge of pecan pie, a banana sundae, racks of assorted pastry, ice cream, cheeseburgers. Made of plaster, slathered with lush enamel paint, these goodies actually seem ready for the consumer's fork and spoon. But like four-color advertisements...
Ground Rules. To accomplish this difficult task, Oldenburg has developed some basic ground rules for his work. The subject first must be timely; he has no use for dead symbols. It must also be an object that touches the body, like furniture and food, or is constantly used, like housewares. "I never make representations of bodies but of things that relate to bodies so that the body sensation is passed along to the spectator either literally or by suggestion." Finally, his creations must have something to do with sex. "If you ignore that," he says, "you're missing...
from thee; Thy fish lie dead by poisoned streams...
...temporarily to halt galloping inflation." Many labor leaders agree, provided that similar controls are put on profits and dividends. At its convention in Atlantic City, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last week called for Government action to hold down the costs of medical care, insurance and housing. The Administration, however, remains dead set against price controls on the grounds that they are unwieldy, unworkable and fail to attack the real causes of inflation...
...year, a level far lower than in many white communities. Then the reservation was made into a regular Wisconsin county, tax exemptions were cut off, and Indians who occupied land were allowed to buy or rent it. In the eight years since termination, many have become dead weights on the state's welfare programs. They have, in fact, cost Wisconsin nearly $2 million...