Word: nylon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall-to-wall carpeting is creeping into the kitchen-and making surprising sense there. The Roxbury Carpet Co. has developed a dense, shallow-pile nylon carpet in twelve colors, bonded to a three-sixteenths-inch sponge rubber backing that is so resistant to most stains that they can be easily removed with a wet sponge. Burned areas may be cut out and replaced without showing edges or a patched look. Eliminated are the hazards of slippery floors, the work of polishing to make them slippery, the breakage of any dropped plate or glass, and the fatigue of the stand...
...Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Bury is a Paris-based Belgian who seems to be catching on everywhere. He was a hit in Venice, and U.S. museums were snatching up his work before this first New York show even opened. It consists of electrically animated nails, sticks, balls and tiny nylon wires that twist, tangle and topple, clutch and clash, then move smoothly together again, always with a sly, sensuous suggestion of human activity. Through...
...unusual number of op artists come from Latin America. One is a Venezuelan named Jésus Raphael Soto, 41, now working in Paris, who calls his work "vibrations" (left), though he states that he has never read a physics book. His colored aluminum bars, suspended from fine nylon threads in shadow boxes, sway in front of lined backgrounds and dematerialize. "See how the stiff bars become fluid and luminous," says Soto. Like conductors' batons summoning music from strings, they do assume a sonorous life...
Peep Through the Periscope. And so, on to Miami Beach, where Lyndon delivered a sterilized, above-the-battle, President-of-all-the-people speech to the Machinists, then whisked on up to Cape Kennedy for an unscheduled inspection tour. There he donned a surgical-looking white nylon cap and gown, went through a pre-satellite-shoot "clean room," peered through a periscope at a Saturn rocket being groomed for flight, gave missile workers a few little keeper-of-the-peace pep talks...
...such as "the J.F.K. Drinking Glass," a tumbler adorned with a sky-blue caricature of the late President, J.F.K. chocolate-filled gold coins (10?), and a posthumous J.F.K. prayer ("Special Delivery from Heaven," $2.95 gift-boxed). Other big-selling souvenirs include martini shakers cunningly shaped like bedpans, rubber and nylon "Golden Goddess Shrunken Heads," and a coffee-table plaque that reads: GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT. Vacationers stand in line for rococo delicacies ranging from frankfurters stewed in champagne (it says) to chocolate-covered frozen bananas...