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Word: formica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wind and water. As a "Foley artist" in the Monster Sound Show, you desperately improvise sound effects to accompany a comedy thriller, then dub your voice to match the moving lips of Clark Gable or Jean Harlow -- and listen in giddy horror to the results. Sit in a formica booth at the Prime Time Cafe, a gorgeous riot of '50s kitsch, and waitresses dressed like early TV moms dote on you as if you were Wally and the Beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You're Under Arrest! | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Formica and Celotex are among the odd materials employed by this enigmatic but important American painter and sculptor. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 16, 1989 | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Formica and Celotex are among the odd materials employed by this enigmatic but important American painter and sculptor. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 2, 1989 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Formica and Celotex are among the odd materials employed by this enigmatic but important American painter and sculptor. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Dec. 26, 1988 | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...year off-Broadway, and when he sticks to the old script, he brings the thing to life onscreen. So, at first, does director Oliver Stone. He makes a voice in the dark seem a perfect subject for motion pictures. The camera prowls with a purpose; the movie gleams like Formica lighted by witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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