Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply as any crisis in this century. Within both major parties politicians have at least had a traditional forum from which to endorse or denounce the course of U.S. policy. Not so with the nation's private citizens who are critical of the war. Lacking an organized, effectual medium through which to voice their protests, dissenters ranging from Maoists to hippies, from middle-aged suburbanites in SANE to adolescent hotspurs in the Students for a Democratic Society have stormed Pentagon and draft board, marched and picketed and advertised. Already infected with malefic characters whose political education ended with 19th...
That odd bit of sculpture in the corner-does it look sort of like a mashed motorcycle? Could be, if it's the work of Washington's newest artistic giant, Karl Hess, 44. Only three years ago, Hess was expressing himself in a different medium as Barry Goldwater's chief speechwriter. After the campaign, though, he fell into such malodor that he could not land a job even as a Capitol Hill elevator operator. He took up motorcycle racing as a diversion, then began studying welding so that he could repair his own wrecked bikes. Sculpture being...
Nude Ritual. On his own, Gernreich has prospered. The medium-high-priced ($90 to $500) clothes that he puts out under his own label gross close to $1,000,000 a year. The lower-priced ($40 to $125) knitwear that he creates for Harmon grosses another $2,000,000. Just this year, he also contracted to design silk signature scarves for Glentex and a collection of knee socks, stockings and panty hose for the McCallum Boutique...
...grapevine is a powerful medium for the exchanging of student ideas and the forming of student opinions. The grapevine has been running sour toward business in three major areas: recruiting, summer training and jobs, and actual training programs...
...communal road building, calculated that at least one tiny transistor radio was sounding its unavoidable message every 20 yards along the two-mile road. Radio has long been the window on the world for isolated areas, but the cheapness and portability of the transistor set has given the medium a new mobility and a new dimension-and a vast measure of influence. For Peru's 12 million inhabitants, there are more than 600 radio stations, and radio reaches the ears of virtually every man, woman and child in the country.* In Guatemala, six times as many people listen...