Word: motorless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view Moholy within the limits of his paintings and constructions is to see but one aspect of an immensely versatile personality. Some of his more visionary notions were industrial designs-an engine fueled by sunlight, a motorless dishwasher, an infra-red oven that would cook dinner at the table. The creation of beautiful objects per se was never his intent. "I don't like the word beauty," he often declared. "Utility and emotion and satisfaction, those are more important words." At one point, he even foresaw a day when paint and brushes would be discarded, though he conceded that...
...Lamentable as the vandalism was, it made little difference. The following day, demolition crews moved into the evacuated fairgrounds to pick up where the tourists had left off. The balloons above the ten Brass Rail Restaurants were deflated, and the food stands themselves were prepared for the bulldozer. The motorless Fords and Mercurys at the Ford Pavilion were packed away on car trailers and shipped off to Detroit, where the company will add the motors, sell them to employees at cut rates. The talking Lincoln statue from the Illinois Pavilion was carefully crated, sent by moving van to Disneyland...
Juster's prose has the wonderful, perceptive quality of Stephen Leacock's best work. His world is filled with motorless cars that go without saying, and synonym buns. There is an island called Conclusions which looks better from a distance and can only be reached by jumping. Though very unpleasant, it is quite difficult to leave...
...kicked about on the networks, intermittently joined the Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Garry Moore TV shows. This season. Candid Cameraman Allen Funt is back on the air (CBS) with a new half-hour show that features Ar thur Godfrey and Singer Dorothy Collins (the girl in the motorless car) as fellow cards, plus innumerable new gimmicks. In a season in which the canned far out weighs the candid, Camera has grabbed one of the highest ratings...