Word: drip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plumbing is infamous, and so are French plumbers (not that their American colleagues are much to boast about either). It is commonplace for a French operative to take days or weeks to answer a call, then, after fumbling about for a bit, to leave a flood where only a drip had existed before. Capitalizing on the general state of disrepair among France's repairmen, SOS's two young owners have built up a $1,000,000-a-year business out of providing prompt and relatively effective service. Gerard Verger, 33, and Joel Laval, 31, started SOS (telephone...
...nothing stabile. For centuries, people tried to convey motion. Symbols, snapshot representations, impressionism. All this was based on a convention everyone understood. But it was never the reality of motion. I want reality." Haacke made sealed Plexiglas boxes with enough water inside to evaporate in the sun and then drip in random patterns down the sides. Next he tried what he calls "hourglasses," something like stereo-kaleidescopes, which require audience participation to turn them. According to Haacke, the viewer may enjoy the tubes full of immiscible liquids tumbling in colorful turbulence just as curiosity pieces or get a personal esthetic...
...Playroom is a morbid, two-hour, sadistic drip-tease. The drips are a revolting quintet of teen-age boys and girls who call themselves "the Filthy Five," and hang out in a surrealistically appointed turret room of a quaint Manhattan apartment building. These kids are not remotely real, but they have most of the commercially fashionable maladjustments from homosexuality to reefer-dragging, though Playwright Mary Drayton permits one youngster to be merely obese...
...wheeled into Operating Room No. 1 to have her appendix removed, Nurse-Anesthetist Joan Booth simply jabbed the needle of a syringe through the rubber seal on the "Surital" bottle, drew off some of the fluid, and put a, little into the patient's arm through an intravenous drip tube. The child immediately went into bronchial spasms. Nurse Booth says she "never saw anything so violent." She injected a muscle relaxant and called in a staff osteopathic surgeon, Dr. Paul W. Trimmer, to put a breathing tube down the girl's windpipe. The child kept flailing...
...Water Supply, Gas and Electricity Department churned out stickers admonishing: DON'T BE A DRIP−SAVE EVERY DROP. To save as many drops as possible, the city began enforcing stringent−and widely ignored−restrictions on the use of central air conditioning in offices and apartments. Though 110 inspectors fanned out to enforce the curb, the city issued a summons to only one offender−the landlord of the local FBI office. The Water Department nabbed another kind of offender: the Parks Department, which was caught wet-handed sprinkling golf greens in dead of night...