Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in the lowliest problem, the disposal of municipal and industrial wastes that pollute the air and the streams of the U.S., there has been some progress. In a process now being established in Houston and three other cities, tin cans and other ferrous-metal objects are separated magnetically from other wastes. Rags, paper, plastics and aluminum, wood and rubber are hand-picked from the conveyer belt, each for assignment to reprocessing and recovery. The remaining organic material is "cooked" and deodorized to produce fertilizer. The object in view is that each city will become a closed loop-like...
...Smith did a number of monumental sized sculptures in which he drew flat figures using metal strips as line. In Australia (1951), the basic description of the figure is strictly two dimensional. This over-all quality forces the viewer to see even the volumetric elements which expand out beyond the picture plane, as part of the same two dimensional surface...
...makes a moving thing," says Sculptor George Rickey, "one is always surprised, no matter how preconceived the design, at the movement itself. It seems to come from elsewhere. The pliers only made the arrival possible." In recent years, Rickey's pliers - along with welding torch and sheet-metal cutters - have produced whole families of curiously moving metal sculptures that gambol and gimbal in the wind, slicing segments of time like pendulums or spinning until the sunlight splinters into a spectral blur (see color...
Cogs to Cognition. In the 1950s, Rickey made a series of sculptures called Little Machines of Unconceived Use, whose metal surfaces traveled in interpenetrating orbits on pivots within pivots within pivots. They reminded him of the sidewheelers steaming down the Clyde in Scotland, with their rocking arms and connecting rods churning, barely missing each other in what he calls "dramatic crises." In Rickey's Lumina, the rapid flickering lends meaning to the watchmakers' term for controlled motion-escapement...
...past several months, women have gone to work producing steel and rebuilding auto parts in Chicago, loading post-office vans and delivering the mail in Atlanta, welding and operating metal-stamping machines in Fort Worth, driving cabs in Seattle, running power cranes in Los Angeles, and pumping gas at service stations along the Illinois Toll Road. Elsewhere, women have been engaged as draftsmen, meatcutters, warehouse laborers, helicopter pilots and company guards...