Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stripped to unemotive zigzags. Ronald Bladen, 48, contributes an empty 8-ft. by 8-ft. by 16-ft. white plywood box, tilted up from the floor. The box is empty and the work is untitled. Ellsworth Kelly, 43, otherwise a hard-edge painter of interest, displays an L-shaped item that dully fulfills its title, Blue White Angle. Paul Frazier, 44, represents himself with Space Manifold #5, an irregular cruciform abstraction that would kiss Rodin off as a sentimentalist...
...sound" of the Voice, inaugurated last month, and so far audible only on English-language broadcasts, is adapted from the highly successful "magazine formats" now popular in U.S. radio and TV-an amalgam of music, news, discussion, comedy and anecdotes, with hardly any item running for more than four minutes...
...defense budget's most elusive variable is the war in Viet Nam. The conflict is now costing around $2 billion a month, up 100% in the past year. One item alone, the amount of aerial ordnance unleashed over North and South Viet Nam, is already equal to the World War II level, and has surpassed that of Korea. The U.S. has lost 560 planes to date (427 over the north, 133 over the south), more than its worldwide losses in wartime 1942. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently ordered 280 new fighters at a cost of $700 million...
Plea for Flexibility. Volkswagen is also puzzled over how to design an impact-absorbing steering column for its boxy Microbus, since the column is nearly vertical. One especially irksome item is a rear-window defroster. France's Renault complains that such a device would be "superfluous," since an outside mirror does the job adequately. An impossibility in many very small cars, such as Britain's Mini-Minor, is a requirement to have the front seat set back far enough so that in a collision passengers' heads will not snap down to the dashboard. One solution: shoulder...
...cash in early on the $400 million men's cosmetics boom (bolstered largely by women shopping for their menfolk at Christmas), Revlon, Inc., last week uncorked its brand-new, 18-item Braggi collection, including cologne "designed for the individualist," and a nightcap facial massage "to relieve a look of worry and fatigue." Mary Lindsay, wife of New York's mayor, confides: "There is nothing that has wheels or that flies that John Jr. hasn't marked in the F.A.O. Schwarz Christmas catalogue...