Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absurdity Is Fact. "Almost all present movements are anecdotal," says Le Pare. "The real interest of a painting is its visual presence, not the fact that a naked woman has rolled on it." "Presence" in his works is felt by pressing buttons. Motors whir, lights whirl, and metal mirrors wiggle back and forth fun-house style. By eliminating the human figure, and even human scale, Le Pare runs opposite to pop or any art style. He strikes out for a world where science and art meet, where absurdity is nonetheless fact, where reality, however abstract in appearance, is still reality...
...Starlet Pamela Tiffin, who is the wife of a serious-minded journalist, was almost undone by her little nothing. She came as Kate in a strapless jeweled bra and one-shoulder toga slashed to the hip by Tiziani; by evening's end, all but one of the four metal anchors se curing the bra had cast loose their moorings...
...giant bomber plummeted like a felled eagle. It smashed belly-down into the Mojave Desert, exploding into a thousand pieces. The long, proud neck was broken off and hurled 50 yds.; the heat was so fierce that much of the fuselage melted into rivulets of metal. Cross's body was found in the unblown copilot's ejection capsule...
...wheel drive on the Cadillac Eldorado. Chrysler is discontinuing Imperial as a separate line, will make it a more expensive Chrysler with extra decor and equipment. Ford for the first time will bring out four-door Thunderbirds. Pontiac's grille has been given a cat-whisker effect, with metal trim above the headlights suggesting flaring eyebrows. Detroit insiders have a name for the car: Batmobile...
...urgently interested and are investing at record rates. One magnet for capital is Western Australia, which has 15 billion tons of high-grade iron ore, about one-eighth of the world's known reserves. Great consortiums of companies, including the U.S.'s Kaiser Steel and American Metal Climax, have contracted to sell $3.5 billion worth of iron ore and pellets to Japanese steelmakers over the next 25 years. In the north, bauxite reserves amount to 3.5 billion tons, about half of global reserves, or enough to fill all the Western world's needs for a hundred years...