Word: goldbergian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time and its offspring, movement, have fascinated some modern artists. Sculptors can build it straight into their work -- the last half of the 20th century is full of wind-, gravity- or motor-powered contraptions that range from the balletic (Alexander Calder) to the Rube Goldbergian (Jean Tinguely) -- but a painter has to deal with a still, flat surface. On it, there are two possibilities. The first is to try to render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward...
...Uncle Scrooge." It was collectors who first discovered Barks himself. The artist's narrative skills would have made him a stand out, but the detail of his drawing was what elevated him to the status of pop father figure. All his early jobs gave him a Rube Goldbergian fascination with mechanical comedy; his plots were researched the way a schoolboy would do a term paper-by turning to the National Geographic and Scientific American. "If you're going to be in the Andes, it had to look like the Andes," he insists. "Some of those other artists...
...usual the Administration did not help its cause by a confused approach to the issue. "The program is rather Rube Goldbergian," concedes an administrative energy adviser. Because of the bewildering intricacy of energy regulations, there is no guarantee that the fee will apply only to gasoline. Oil companies might be able to increase the price of other petroleum products, like home heating oil, thus giving a nervous Congress further cause for election-year jitters. While the Administration claims the fee would save 100,000 bbl. of oil per day, skeptical industry analysts say the reduction would be closer...