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...become more and more ephemeral and mass-denying. It turned into a matter of open steel constructions, more air than metal; painted surfaces that repress one's sense of material; cool machine-made boxes, metal tiles or bricks laid flat on the floor, anodized glass cubes and characterless Formica skins. To the extent that sculpture can get away from its primordial conditions of weight, thickness, opacity and immobility, it did so in the '60s, and often with an annoyingly academic self-righteousness. Nevertheless, a few of the best sculptors of the time, like Mark di Suvero and Richard...
Unkind Cut. "Underneath the imitation-oak-grained formica veneer is solid oak, beneath that phony image of character is character," writes Safire. But what is the nature of that character? He never succeeds in defining it. Perhaps there never was anything cohesive in Nixon's character. Perhaps Safire is simply too compassionate to label it. Such ambiguity of approach may partly explain why Safire's original publisher, William Morrow & Co., rejected his manuscript as unsatisfactory (the author lost his suit to recover all of a promised $250,000 advance, settling for $83,000). Still, Safire offers lively anecdotes...
...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...