Word: monsterization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oldenburg had gone on from plaster to vinyl and canvas. In 1962 he dreamed up monster hamburgers and bed-size pistachio ice-cream cones. Since then he has sketched a myriad of delightful "proposed colossal monuments" for Manhattan, including a giant Teddy bear for Central Park, and a mountainous baked potato for the front of the Plaza Hotel. Conceivably, Manhattan's festival organizers also expected him to whip up the baked potato. Instead, he had the city hire two gravediggers, who dug a 3-ft. by 6-ft. hole in Central Park, then carefully filled it in. He called...
...defensive alignment is similar to Harvard's. Yale usually has five linemen, two linebackers, and three defensive backs. The difference is their "monster man" who is a combination of lineman, end, and linebacker. Harvard coaches refer to this formation as an "Oklahoma with a monster...
...emphasis in this defense is on stopping the sweep to the wide side of the field. The monster man usually lines up outside the wingback and is responsible for stopping the wide run-Harvard's bread and butter play...
Yale alternates between a zone and man to man defense against the pass, dropping off one or both linebackers, both ends, and sometimes the monster man. Feula expects little blitzing even in obvious passing situations although the Elis have blitzed frequently during the season...
...computer is thus the ultimate machine. It can do anything any machine could do, so in one sense it is the end of progress. All of history before the construction of ENIAC in 1944 was but the slow gestation of the monster that is now taking its first halting steps. The rest of history will consist wholly of the development of its potential...