Word: futuristic
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...futurist sensibility took hold, mainstream designers showed some transitional ambivalence: a goofy "electric candle" (1929) on view at the Whitney is unsure if it is supposed to look like a rocket or an actual candle or a tiny fluted Doric column. But the black-paneled Atwater Kent radio from the same period has a machine-age spareness that is, like Fred Astaire, both suave and ingenuous. It is an American synthesis that product design has only lately been recapturing, as in Apple's nubile Macintosh computer...
...town, instead of the libraries and museums. Let us make a clean sweep of the art of the past!" Fat chance. Such manifestos had already been part of the rubric of modernism -- or of a certain kind of modernism -- for the best part of half a century, since the Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the Dadaist Hugo Ball exhorted the young to burn their museums for the sake of the new age to come. And they led, on iron rails, to the museum itself...
History of Science concentration Reuben K. Sparks '85 was one of a entrants from colleges nationwide in Honeywell Corporation's third annual Futurist Awards Competition's third annual Futurist Awards Competition. Each entrant submitted three 500-word essays, two of which predicted technological developments in specific fields for the year 2009. The third essay addressed the social impact of the technological advancements...
...years of the century, the seems as obsolete as the hand crank. In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti decided that "the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." Fellow Futurist Antonio Sant'Elia drew plans for a Utopia of skyscrapers pierced by freeway ramps built of concrete and gleaming steel...
DIED. Anne Hewlett Fuller, 87, widow of Futurist Inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, who suffered a fatal heart attack while visiting his comatose wife's bedside; after an intestinal operation; in Los Angeles. Although she did not learn of his death, Mrs. Fuller died 36 hours after her husband. They were buried together last week in Cambridge, Mass...