Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desk-mounted pencil sharpener. In the twelve years between the Wall Street Crash and Pearl Harbor, the American imagination seems to have oscillated between two images, the streamline and the breadline -- the former promising relief from the latter. And in the maxim of the 1939 New York World's Fair, "See tomorrow -- now!," lay the siren syllables of undeferred gratification that would abolish the constraints of Puritan America while preserving its millenarian fantasies...
There are some delightful "pure" works of art in this show, like Alexander Calder's little maquette for a huge motorized sculpture at the New York World's Fair -- a small, sharp orrery with strong cosmological overtones. There are also some rarities by lesser-known artists, notably the huge cubist- derived portrait of the workings of a watch by Gerald Murphy, the American expatriate on whom Scott Fitzgerald was to base his character of Dick Diver. . But compared with the knockout confidence of the work of engineers and designers represented in this show, the machine-esthetic painting...
...FAIR to criticize an amateur production for being amateurish? It wasn't a good sign that I began to ponder this question but a few minutes into the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. At least I had a long time--the rest of the play--to come up with an answer...
...difficult for me to criticize the President, because I've been praising him since 1976. I went door-to-door registering voters. I worked at the county fair, passing out brochures and jelly beans. Somewhere in my closet I have a Reagan t-shirt, plus 20 or 30 bumpers stickers...
...university holds that the ban on banners is fair because all dorm residents sign an agreement not to hang such signs as a condition of residency. But as the judge held, such an agreement is hardly worth the paper its written on; it is just another example of B.U.'s coercion. A student from out of town has no choice but to sign the agreement...