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...byword for inadequacy. They refused to buy Civilisation because they thought there would be no audience for it. So instead of being dropped into some Sunday-morning coffin slot on network, it went out on prime time on PBS, straight to 5 million refugees from electronic gunk. The size of this audience would not have impressed Fred Silverman, but enough people tuned in for their weekly fix of what Paul Claudel called "l' allure du vrai gentleman Anglais" to make a star of Clark. Thus he became the Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts, a fate that enormously surprised...
...whose favorite subject is his own head, blown up to more than Roman proportions and subjected to various odd indignities. In Splat, 1978, it has taken a bucketful of liquid white clay full in the face, like a vaudevillian copping a pie; a disembodied brown finger wipes the gunk away from his right eye socket. Arneson's mocking self-monuments are carried through with vast gusto and panache, and his technical resources seem limitless; besides, his formal ambitions are clear enough, below the funky surface. Even so, his work has a way of wandering off into a pointless anecdotalism...
Mission Control resolved to try again, but a new mechanical storm cloud soon appeared. Two oil filters, closely resembling the ones used in automobiles, had become clogged with gunk. As a result, two of the shuttle's three auxiliary power units-hydraulic devices crucial to entering orbit and landing-were questionable...
...clogging the system," admitted a technician at Kennedy. NASA engineers had even included a bypass around the oil filters just in case. Such clogging is usually caused by a leak in liquid hydrazine, the auxiliary power units' fuel. Hydrazine reacts with lubricating oil to form waxy polymers, or gunk. Despite this hazard, prelaunch preparations did not include an oil change; the two jammed systems were running on the same oil used in last April's shuttle mission. Significantly, the oil in the one working system was fresh...
Every year Americans throw away enough oil to fill 15 supertankers. The waste, which runs to 1.1 billion gallons, is the glop that is drained from industrial machinery, buses, trucks and the crankcases of cars at every oil change. The gunk is so grimy that it is usually just sold for pennies per gallon to waste oil dealers...