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Word: korper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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Usage:

...trash," says Hugo Mesa, a commercial designer in Los Angeles. "It's all potential pollution." In his hands, a discarded beer barrel becomes a leather-slung chair, old railroad ties turn into thick benches, tin cans take on new life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband's worn-out Army boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Rise of Rejasing | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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