Word: linoleum
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...architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
...Chicago's Fifth Annual Merchandise Mart Floor-Covering Show hired a daring rigger to dress as a sultan, hover over the city on a linoleum "flying carpet" suspended from a helicopter. When fog and rain cut visibility, the sultan had to be dangled instead on a boom from the Mart's 353 ft. roof...
...refined experiment in egomania. Lipton's The Cloak, even as a theme, could be more feelingly rendered by any class of fifth-graders. Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79 should be considered as an expression of pure design, not as art-it would make an excellent linoleum motif. Contrastingly, Loren Maclver's The Street shows a lyric tenderness; apparently there is still a bold blaze of originality in contemporary American art, for all of the maunderings of the abstract expressionists. TED LOVINGTON JR. Staten Island...
...company, part owner of two TV stations and a rotary-press company. Born of poor Russian immigrant parents, Fleischman scraped through hard times, remembers when the family lived on nothing but hard-boiled eggs for days. As a youth he pitched in to help his father run a small linoleum store in Detroit. After the elder Fleischman nourished his shop into Detroit's largest carpet business, Larry, at 14, was sent to Western Military Academy in Alton, 111., got interested in art when a St. Louis Art Museum guard invited him into a gallery. He promptly bought a Picasso...
...artful manipulation of the price of the 213 commodities (sausages, vin rouge, coal, linoleum) that make up the official cost-of-living index, the Mollet government has succeeded in holding the index itself relatively steady while most other prices are shooting up. Should the index jump two more points (to 149.1), minimum wages for 20 million workers would automatically increase 5%, setting another inflationary spiral. Said one French economist last week: "The sea is lapping at the dike...