Word: escher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are those who claim that Boston is a city designed by M.C. Escher, its maps labeled by Italo Calvino. Bostonians speak of a Central Artery that does not appear on maps or signs, of squares that are not square, not labeled and not acknowledged by Rand McNally...
...Teamsters will lobby state and federal officials for a moratorium on farm foreclosures and will provide legal aid to fight bankruptcies; meanwhile, the farmers will help push for the repeal of Iowa's right-to-work law. In Washington, Iowa, more than 150 friends and supporters of Roger Escher, 38, took a different tack. They stood silent last month and refused to bid in the auctioning of Escher's machinery by the United Central Bank & Trust of Kalona. Near by, some 45 crosses in the frozen ground commemorated the Washington County farmers who left the business last year...
...plight of farmers like Escher makes it unlikely that Congress will swallow the Administration's cutbacks in aid without major changes. In the short run, the sweeping policy reforms would turn farming into an even riskier business and further reduce farm income. But the bill's defenders insist that increased competition would make U.S. agriculture healthier over the long haul. Some new approach certainly seems worth trying, since the expensive policies of the past have not solved farming's woes. Says Agriculture Secretary Block: "I am encouraged that there is a majority that supports the need for a dramatic change...
Mitsumasa Anno has been called the Escher of Japan because of his ability to trick the eye and educate the mind. In Anno's Flea Market (Philomel; $11.95), two old peasants wheel a cart across a medieval square. Horseless carriages suddenly appear in the background. A stagecoach is on display, and African explorers have arrived with a cache of ivory tusks. In Anno's crowded canvas, allusions are everywhere: the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, the paintings of Monet, the films of Rene Clair reach across the years. With his panoramic, limitless cast, this flea market constantly renews...
Hackers, says Turkle, are social misfits who construct digital Utopias, hang out in pancake houses and admire the recursive art of M.C. Escher. At M.I.T their nerdy abdication from society is "sport death"-programming for up to 30 hours without sleep before "crashing." Alex, a dedicated hacker, describes it as feeling "totally telepathic with the computer...