Word: junking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Junk Pile makes dramatic use of a favorite Koerner device: psychological perspective. The Negro workman looms twice the size of the Plymouth in the foreground, simply because he is more important. In fact, Koern says, he represents a god of darkness and regeneration, just as the fat man sunning his face with the aid of a metal reflector is a disguised god of light and life. The Plymouth will eventually join the junk pile, and, remelted, may yet become a bridge. The setting is the North Side approach to Pittsburg's Manchester Bridge, leading to the Golden Triangle...
...Carry, a young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving Cash-and-Carry a private course in flower arrangement, is outraged, and so is Pi. The lovers escape on a passing junk, but fall afoul of pirates...
...Italian immigrants, Paolozzi was born in Edinburgh, but got his start as an artist by chumming with surrealists in Paris. He prowls junk yards and factory dumps for his materials, which he assembles elaborately. Paolozzi begins by pressing his bits of industrial detritus into soft clay, which he then fills with soft wax. Then he combines hundreds of small wax forms to build up his figures. A cogwheel may do for a navel, a phonograph pickup for an arm. Finally cast in bronze, they become mysterious idols of fusion and confusion. Explains Paolozzi: "My occupation can be described...
France scaled down (from 30% to 27%) import duties on U.S. autos, electric razors, farm machinery. France is giving the U.S. the same reductions it gives its Common Market neighbors. Import quotas on about 200 items ranging from textiles to household appliances were also scrapped, and Pinay promised to junk all remaining import quotas within two years. Foreign-trade experts doubt that this will mean any sizable overall boost in U.S. sales in competition with heavily protected French industry...
...Board Chairman William Paley postponed a European vacation to help whip up something better. This fall, before putting on the air the new private-eye program called Staccato, the producer invited Los Angeles' Humphrey to appraise the opening show. After Humphrey passed judgment-"a miserable piece of junk"-it was scrapped, another episode substituted...