Word: formica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medusa. Every object is overloaded to bursting with visual acerbity, mocking the very idea of everyday use. There is no way of using any of the Chair Transformations that Samaras made in 1969-70; one cannot sit on a cage of plastic flowers, or a chair of white formica which, halfway, turns into a mess of varicolored wool, or a seat with a five-inch spike rising from its exact center...
...time as early arrivals gathered in the Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must be the genuine article: a primitive piccolo consisting...
Corporate leaders are indeed concerned. Though enraged dissidents often make dialogue impossible, they are forcing executives to think about questions that most managers once considered beyond the scope of corporate conscience. Wallace G. Taylor, president of Formica Corp., says that businessmen are "deaf, dumb and blind to a hydraheaded new-American revolution that is tearing this country asunder, value by value." How, asks Taylor, "can a country whose business is business continue to be deaf to its own youth and blind to a war that is rapidly turning this country into one of the poor nations...