Word: erector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike wreaks some degree of havoc, and the dock stoppage is no exception. In Chicago, some of the display props for Carson Pirie Scott's two-week promotion of Italian wares never arrived. Gabriel Industries cannot get battery-powered motors for its Erector Sets; Ideal Toy, based in New York City, has laid off some 200 of its 2,500 workers...
From a helicopter whirling 1,000 ft. overhead, the gas and oil rigs look like pieces of some monster Erector Set. Giant beams crisscross to form towers rising 23 stories above the waves. In the swampy bayous near the coast, production and drilling equipment stands in tight clusters at the older drilling sites. But as the mud-brown waters turn to green and finally blue, the rigs thin out; the most remote are exploring for gas 110 miles off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Some offshore rigs are pushing their steel drilling bits down through...
...superiority goes. A little known fact about the Mammoth Samaritan is that in a recent backroom, unofficial test flight of a proposed new branch of the Sports of the Nation and the World, Bruno beat hands down and reduced to less of an inexorable mishmosh of spare parts and erector set oil than he recently did to Stan Hansen, that Octopoid Bell-boy, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH had to be picked off the floor with Brillo and a sponge. And Bruno just used words!! (More about this next...
...Friedrich recognizes the extreme dubiousness of an inquiry into the irrational. To avoid the narrowing of scope that must occur if the subject is to be coherent and focused, he has a novel solution. He ignores definitions. This is a tinkering of philosophy because, like the child with an erector set who wants to build his skyscraper without nuts and bolts, he proposes to define madness out of nothing...
Reading about the "artist of exuberant vitality and unblunted idealism," Mark di Suvero, I received the impression that his "sculpture" manifested a frustration in his childhood-his Erector set lacked too many parts to build a conventional structure...