Word: linoleum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are moments in every class when students' attention wanes, moments when their collective gaze begins to linger on the ornamental drapes, the retro linoleum, that cute blonde in the front...
...wooden booths, gruesome charcoal drawings of pregnant women ohne Bustenhalter, and hanging skeletons, Aerosmith's nascent Mama Kin club screams, drools, and bleeds for perverse, unrestrained if highly orchestrated debaucheries, preferably of Homo sapiens. Two domineering, heavily-stocked bars squat facing each other across the red-rimmed, black linoleum dance floor; smug, wood-carved janissaries. The room takes cares to invoke the popular equation "Lust + Delusion = a reckless, carnal kind of vermilion violence, real good stuff...
...hard enough having to leave the well-kept, pastel-hued interiors and recently restored brick exteriors of the Yard dorms for the houses' Sophomore Specials--first-floor rooms, walk-throughs, linoleum-floored cubicles. But Harvard's laissez-faire attitude toward sophomore move-in and toward our adjustment to house life makes a difficult transition unnecessarily worse...
...libraries on campus, it is Lamont which is most conducive to studying. Lamont is a no-nonsense, no frills library. There are but a handful of cushy chairs; only the most minimal carpeting is used. Lamont is built from concrete and starkly adorned with linoleum floors and metal bookcases. It's a utilitarian box which has the slogan "Glue your butt to the chair" etched into its walls. Lamont provides students with the serious study space which undergraduates welcome as their necessary refuge...
...followers, and none who became painters of the first rank. Part of the paradox of Mondrian was that although he believed passionately in the "universal" character of his art, it could not be successfully imitated. But it was vulgarized on a million grid-design dresses, bedspreads and rolls of linoleum, and parodied in a thousand cartoons. This image of Mondrian as a high-level designer reflected back on his work, and one of the objectives of this show (there has not been a Mondrian retrospective in New York since 1971) is to rescue an artist who was incapable of triviality...