Word: fiberglass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to hide something in Grand Central Station, make it big. For weeks I had been passing through New York's largest subway terminal, never noticing the large, fiberglass cubicle recently built there. Inside that plastic cage sprawls Astroflash, the enormous IBM computer which, after great financial success in Paris, has invaded America's largest city. When equipped with a subject's place and exact time of birth, the mechanical monster will spew out an "astro-psy-chological portrait" and "an astralcalendar for the coming six months," at the rate of 1100 lines a minute. Trilingual as well as speedy...
...Seagram offices automatically turn on at a set intensity, so that the building will stand against Manhattan's evening skyline just as Mies planned that it should. Similarly, any tenant moving into his apartment houses on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive has to accept the gray fiberglass curtains that Mies specified for their floor-to-ceiling windows. A bon vivant who enjoyed fine-tailored suits, gourmet food, and huge cigars, Mies once contemplated moving into his own building, then decided to remain in his oldfashioned, high-ceilinged apartment nearby. Visitors there found it characteristically spartan, decorated simply with...
...Lincoln Fiberglass Inc. has found that the Coop has a most sporting clientele. Last year the Coop sold more of the company's fiberglass sailboats than any comparable store in the Boston area, explained department manager Roscoe W. Fitts Jr. This year they hope to launch their canoe among the Cambridge outdoorsy...
...Although aluminium canoes are preferable for white-water canoeing, fiberglass is perfectly adequate for idyllic cruising," George R. Merriam '69 of the Harvard Outing Club said yesterday. "The fiberglass boat is over-priced--$169 for the 11-footer--but it will probably sell well. Most of the Coop's customers don't really know much about what they are buying," Merriam said...
...main gallery, the viewer's eye is carried roofward by a giant Alexander Calder mobile that sways like a living totem, then diverted by a gently teetering pair of silver spears by George Rickey. Against one wall, Eva Hesse has lined up a row of 30 glistening clear fiberglass half-box forms, whose intentionally sloppy casting endows them with a bubbly effervescence. Charles Ross's Plexiglas prisms are filled with mineral oil, so that museumgoers see other museumgoers distorted through them, edged in rainbow spectra. Even marble seems to soar, at least in Minoru Niizuma's vertical...