Word: foams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other. In the last and smallest, she is completely nude. New Yorker Lyn Wells has made a life-size portrait of a neighbor by printing back and front views on sensitized linen, sewing the two pieces together along the outlines and filling the space between with rock-hard urethane foam. The most complex and abstract figure is Jack Dales' Cubed Woman No. 3, a rigidly geometric construction of glass photographic plates in a Plexiglas cube. From each of the four sides there is a different view of the same seated female nude. But at first glance the woman...
...that Breakthrough would achieve "total new systems of housing construction." In fact, almost none of the winners offered technological ideas that are particularly exciting. Instead, Romney conceded last week, the plans display "what is possible under existing technology." Of the 22 systems, six use wood, five metal, two plastic-foam panels, two glass-fiber panels, and seven concrete. Romney pointed out that the selections at least involve some shift away from increasingly scarce and costly wood. For example, Shelley System of Puerto Rico uses prefabricated concrete modules that are stacked in checkerboard fashion...
...committee was treated to a demonstration that the laws are selectively enforced. Debby Vollmer, a member of Worchester Women's Liberation, opened an innocent-looking brown paper bag and held up a package of contraceptive foam she had bought in a drug store down the street. She pointed out that drug stores and department stores throughout the state sell contraceptive items to anyone, a violation of the law which the state ignores. At the same time Bill Baird is sentenced to prison for giving contraceptive foam to an unmarried woman...
...held up a package of contraceptive foam she had bought in a drug store on Tremont Street. "And the state collects a sales tax of seven cents on each purchase," she said...
Baird, recently sentenced to three months in jail for giving a package of contraceptive foam to a 22-year-old unmarried woman, said that the legislature was fooling itself if it thought it was protecting the morality of the citizens of Massachusetts by upholding the present...