Word: fountaining
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...that charged for Chicago apartments of similar size. Tenants use every nook and cranny, partitioning off sleeping berths, closets and workshops with hanging plants or plywood. One innovative interior decorator, who moved into a former ice cream parlor, now serves cocktails instead of sarsaparilla from behind the old soda fountain...
...through these latitudes that Ponce de León stumbled in 1513, seeking the fountain of perpetual youth. It was not there. Now it is. The Walt Disney World coat of arms-a terrestrial globe wearing Mickey ears, set in a capital D-is no metaphor but a frank statement of intention. The place is the last example of idealized, high-despotic city planning, a rich hick cousin of all the imaginary and perfect townships that architects from Filarete in the 15th century to Boullée in the 18th wrought from their schematic, authoritarian fantasies but never managed...
Until then the browsers and shoppers in Copley Square can gaze on the craftsmanship of Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church, dnagle their feet in the fountain beside the church, or stroll through the new wind of the Boston Public Library...
...fountain items we are on par with or less expensive than our competitors. And, we do not charge extra for nuts on our sundaes...
...Sometimes he showed found objects under the punning name Rrose Sélavy; in a fit of ennui he invented a new art form, "readymades," prosaic articles given fresh contexts. One, a snow shovel, is labeled In Advance of the Broken Arm and signed by Duchamp. The other, entitled Fountain and signed R. Mutt, received a little more attention in its time (1917); it is an unadorned urinal. These are less creations than gestures, nosethumbing at academia, at mass production and, finally, at art itself...