Word: junked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeing so much being discarded. Every time you turned a corner, you'd see in the next trash can some wonderful piece of sculpture.'' So Dine became a member of the "found object" school-a group dedicated to the proposition that many an old piece of junk, if placed in a fresh context, would become a thing of beauty. Then Dine decided that he did not want to deal with found objects any more. "There's too much of other people's mystery in them," he explains...
...detect satellites, NORAD has a new electronic fence across the Southern states of the U.S. Its transmitters hurl radio energy hundreds of miles from the earth; its receivers catch satellite reflections for quick triangulation and tracking. It has detected space junk as small as a 14-ft. strand of wire from an old satellite. Says Captain Orville Greynolds, a spacetrack officer in Colorado Springs: "No one could launch a space vehicle and keep it a secret. We are positive we have checked and tracked all Russian objects now in space...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of Britain's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and an aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition...
...Says Owner Nick Bebek Jr.: "These women start to take inches off their behinds, build their bust up two inches. They go insane! Then their complexions start to get clearer and they wonder why, and then they realize it's from the steam room melting off all that junk they put on their faces. They love...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of Britain's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and a scurvy, aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition...