Word: laundromat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This plastics show demonstrates a beautiful all-plastic sub-aesthetic of this technological aesthetic. And within this even a washing machine agitator, lifted out of its laundromat context, becomes a graceful flowing-spiral sculpture...
...settles on his recollections of an old acquaintance, Hymen Lustgarten, a former Marxist from New Jersey who has passed through all the radical ideological incarnations of the '30s. Lustgarten loses at everything, including the postwar European black market and the Laundromat business in Algeria. But as Bellow reveals in a balance of satire and compassion, Lustgarten's failures brim with life juices while Mosby's successes are empty and dry. "Having disposed of all things human," Bellow concludes, "he should have encountered God . . . But having so disposed, what God was there to encounter...
...laughed, howled, and did everything short of rolling on the laundromat floor while reading your cover story on Rowan and Martin. I had to take refuge behind your magazine to evade the glaring eyes of the other patrons who couldn't understand my erratic behavior...
...Into the Laundromat. One prize patient is an electrician who had been declared legally blind as a result of his uremia; after six weeks of intensive dialysis sessions, eight hours at a stretch, he regained his sight and is now back at work. In addition, there are clerks and watchmen, housewives (including a Negro mother of ten), salesmen, accountants, and a society photographer...
...local laundromat still bears a "whites-only" sign, and Marks, a hot dry Delta town, does no better getting along with its colored people than its neighbors...