Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Which is not to say most will not find something useful or valuable. It includes, for example, caloric counts for popular junk food items (A Whopper has 606 compared to a Big Mac's 557); a broad bibliography; a profile of wunderkind Bill Rodgers; a re-evaluation of the specious but spiritually uplifting legend of Pheidippiedes; a thourough survey of running equipment, apparel, and periodicals; and up to the minute status reports on the latest pertinent medical studies...
...season for income tax refunds. Early-bird filers are being rewarded these days by the arrival of pretty, green U.S. Treasury checks in the usual sea of junk mail. This year the pleasure is unusually exquisite: more people than ever are getting refunds. By midyear an estimated 75% of U.S. taxpayers will receive an average of $610 back from Uncle Sam. This is up from last year's $510 rebate. Reason: each personal exemption is now worth $1,000, up from...
...first point to be made about this show is, perhaps, obvious. It is not an exhibition of "ethnic" art. The traditions that have shaped the work in it are Western modernist above anything else. Welded steel plates, junk assemblage, dyed and sewed canvas, scattered installation pieces on the floor-all this is common and current language. All the artists are children of MOMA; most are under 40. There are many references to African tribal art, but they tend to be formal and oblique. What one does not see is the same kind of quotation that artists, generally white, have taken...
Sometimes a very interesting synthesis emerges. Melvin Edwards' small sculptures, made of scrap iron forged and welded together, have a strongly totemic flavor. They allude to the once common practice of bricolage in West African tribal art, whereby mixed scraps of junk (nails, tin, cartridge cases and so forth) were incorporated into carved masks and figures. Junk sculpture has also been a Western convention for decades, but Edwards invests it with a rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open...
...last count, the U.S. Air Force's North American Air Defense Command, the watchdog of all objects in orbit, listed 4,552 pieces of hardware-ranging in size from a Soviet space station to such bits of space junk as an astronaut's glove, stray cameras, and even nuts and bolts. In the coming years NORAD's job will become still harder. By the mid-1980s, the number of orbital objects may double, making it more difficult to tell what is up, and whether it belongs to friend...