Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plumbing when along came cheaper plastic piping. Steel has joined battle with wood over the load-bearing structural parts of the home. Wood and aluminum are wrestling for the right to be in window frames; steel and aluminum are fighting over outside door frames and sills. Gypsum board for interior walls has proved cheaper and faster to install than wet plaster, but it now has challengers in plywood finished by a photo process to look like expensive paneling and Masonite precoated with wallpaper or imitation wood grain...
Carefully Pinter scrapes away the aimless talk and blank expressions that coat real feelings. Underneath we discover a galaxy of neurotic horrors: curious inversions of appearances, petrified wills, secret dreads, loneliness, and despair. These interior stresses are just as commonplace as the banalities that overlay them, even though they are revealed in bizarre ways. The pettiness and self-deception begin to seem less an insipid veneer than a shield for sanity...
...Governors of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico were madder than wet hens, and all over a dry lake. The object of their ire was Interior Secretary Stuart Udall, whom they accused of stealing their hydroelectric water supply and using it to feed power plants in California and Udall's native Arizona...
When such finishing touches as a red marble floor are installed, the two-story interior patio will open to the public this fall, serving as a skylit forecourt to the new Thomas J. Watson art library and a gateway to the Renaissance galleries. To enhance the outdoorsy effect, Met Director James Rorimer promises that the thermostats will be set a few degrees below the rest of the museum...
...frit-coated luminescent walls and lightweight doors are being turned out for houses. Not too far distant, at least in President Marks' dreams, is a house with outside panels of frit as insulation, luminescent inside walls of frit that will do away with conventional lighting, and an interior plentifully stocked with frit-coated appliances...