Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Lyndon Baines Johnson enters the voting booth this week at the Pedernales Electric Co-Op in Johnson City, his name, for a change, will not be on the ballot. After 31 years in Washington and ten consecutive election victories, L.B.J. will be coming home. His fellow-Texans in Johnson City will be pleased to have him back...
...such metropolitan areas as Boston, Atlanta, Houston and front-running Dallas, more apartments are now going up than one-family houses. That condition has long prevailed in New York City, whose prosaic brick or concrete residential towers command attention mostly by sheer size. The current behemoth is Co-Op City, a 15,400-apartment complex now rising on the site of a former swamp in The Bronx. Both in and out of New York, the quality of construction often leaves something to be desired; many builders admit that noise traveling through thin walls is a main source of tenant irritation...
Following the Lampposts. Customs officials rush to their posts in the airport, smile and wave tourists toward Mexico City. Along the way, brilliant banners flap from lampposts. In town, op-art posters, balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...
...deter Kramer Designs of Royal Oak, Mich., from producing a pop copy with twin twirling plastic disks in psychedelic hues. When the string is pulled taut, the disks whirl apart, then clop together in mid-spin, sounding like a shark with loose plates chewing on an oyster. Op-Yop is its name. At $1 each, Kramer has sold 1,000,000 of them to date, confidently expects to sell another million by Christmas...
...with swiveling patterns driven by electric motors and designed a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch. After ten years, Duchamp's energetic nihilism reached its logical conclusion-he retired from painting. But by then his rejection of everything that had gone before had paved the way for surrealism, op, pop and kinetic...