Word: manikin
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...interiors were not designed to please. "These are very clear images of woman's situation expressed as works of art," said Judy Chicago, the program's cofounder. "In essence you walk into female reality and are forced to identify with women." Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an exhausted uterus." In the flesh-colored kitchen, fried eggs made from sponge were stuck to the walls and ceiling, and some of them were transmuted into...
Chicago's partner, Abstract Painter Miriam Schapiro, explained that they were trying to dramatize women in real life, "not as the object of male art." Accordingly, the makers of the dream house dressed the front half of a manikin bride in white satin and posed her triumphantly at the head of the staircase. Their tableau extended to the bottom of the stairs, where the rear half of the bride disappeared into the gray woodwork, carrying her dashed dreams with her into oblivion...
...Arthur C. Clarke, who made his own contribution to the supplement. They are standing before a mock-up of LM, the lunar module, part of a new display in the Time & Life Exhibition Center, which includes models of Saturn V, Surveyor, Ranger and Lunar Orbiter, along with an astronaut manikin standing on a simulated piece of the moon...
...Croft is a kind of moral guardian of the radio show, seeing that nothing in the script offends the proprieties, ethics and decencies of the English home. She looks like a displaced manikin and speaks in tones of liquefied arsenic. Her fraud is that she, too, is a lesbian and has no scruples about luring Childie into ditching Sister George and becoming her private secretary. All she leaves Sister George is an offer to play the part of Clarabelle the Cow in a retch-inspiring kiddie show. At play's end, Sister George sits alone mooing through drunken tears...
...just all this conventional wholesome aura that makes Glenn remarkable. It's almost impossible to believe that he's for real, not a screen fiction or a male advertising manikin. It's almost impossible to believe he's for real, he is such an embodiment of the traditional American ideal. Describe him to a Cliffie and she would call him uncool; introduce him to her and she'd flip...