Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...establishing such alternative forms of energy as windmill power and solar-heated houses. Rather than explaining the ins and outs of how to get and use drugs, Epilog provides the names of laboratories where its readers can have their drugs analyzed anonymously. To be sure, there is still a manual for marijuana growers, but beating inflation comes first...
With other artists in the show, low energy slides into mere inconsequence. Their work is elaborately hermetic, and so looks like a manifesto. But what is being manifested? Manual labor, apparently-endless somnambulistic notations, proffering not a whit of meaning. One could possibly train ants to do it. Thus the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, 33, has assembled two huge panels, each made of several hundred sheets of paper scrawled with words-strings of unrelated numbers, written out in German. This arithmorrhea, she assures the catalogue reader, has nothing to do with mathematics. Nor, apparently, is it meant...
This book is a survival manual, but not one like the usual keep-your-doors-locked-avoid-dark-places one. In the first place, it tries to dispel the notion that rapists are necessarily sick and crazy people lurking in the shadows. In fact, a study done at the University of Chicago, and quoted in the book, shows that 97 per cent of all convicted rapists could not be distinguished from other men through psychological tests. Rape is the province of every man, and "little rapes" are performed on women every moment...
...doing deranged things in other places; that the millions spent each year on passenger screening could better be spent on mental health programs to help such people; and that the federal government has now conditioned Americans, in at least one public place, to surrender themselves and their belongings for manual and electronic searches, even when they are suspected of no crime. Is airport security really worth this price...
...traditional ways, continued to prefer out-of-tune psalms sung at camp meetings to romantic orchestrations played in concert halls, went out and became an insurance agent and then a partner in his own insurance agency. During the day Ives sold insurance, managed the firm, worked on a manual explaining how to induce potential customers to sit back under a barrage of "authoritative data" forcing them to acknowledge that life insurance was doing its part in "the progress of the greater life values." At night and on weekends, Ives wrote symphonies and songs and sonatas, which mostly didn...