Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preventing Decay. Even more sweeping than internal changes in his college, ; says Dr. Salley, is something that is affecting the whole concept of dentistry. Instead of waiting for cavities to appear and then filling them, dentists are trying to do away with that part of their business. They are promoting the prevention of decay through oral hygiene and fluoridation...
...Today," says Dr. Salley, "98% of people get cavities. Where community water is fluoridated, the decay rate is cut by about 65%. If we could apply all we know to all the people, we could cut that rate to less than 20%. But there aren't enough dentists to apply all the knowledge we have." Baltimore is doing its bit by planning on bigger classes. "The first class, in 1840, had five students," said Dean Salley. "Soon we shall admit 128 each year...
...have built since the first colonist arrived on these shores. It is as if we had 40 years to rebuild the entire urban U.S." Compounding the burden, he explained, is the present distressed state of U.S. cities: over 5,000,000 run-down or deteriorating homes, pockets of deCay in the heart of most cities, and suburban crawl creeping into the countryside at a rate of 1,000,000 acres a year...
...stunt worthy of Gulley Jimson? Hundertwasser, 36, is not fictional and is twice as eccentric. He writes steamy manifestoes, the most famous of which praised rust, rot and decay as mankind's truest friends. Now living in Venice, he sometimes dresses like an unholy relic in caftan, brocaded jacket and boots, sometimes in a kimono to match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise...
...Randell, 35, who fashioned a gilt-sprayed throne out of a tangle of exhaust pipes, shock absorbers, grease guns and tireless wheels. On the lower level, he amassed heaps of railroad ties, packing boxes, oversized inner tubes pierced with spikes, and coils of baling wire-"the residue of industrial decay to show the decadent state of the kingdom, a kind of subterranean...