Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid of traditional and new technologies, looks both archaic and slick...
Tough horse-trading shaped the final bill. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire pressured the bill's backers to include an amendment permitting any Governor to veto siting of a nuclear-waste dump in his state unless majority votes in both the Senate and the House overrule him. Mississippi Congressman Trent Lott insisted on a population density-provision aimed at eliminating a potential site in his district from consideration...
Reminding America that "I'm still the greatest." New York Senator Ali announces his candidacy for President, pledging to use his "Dump-a-Chump" strategy. "We Democrats won't take no dive/That actor Reagan's goin down in five," he adds...
...canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes, are the worst menaces of all. Toxic wastes have leached out of both ponds, infecting the area's ground water and killing crops...
Jimmy Carter's self-serving rationalizations are sour grapes, proving just how right the electorate was to dump...