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It’s hard to believe the old-fashioned kitchen at 103 Irving Street fed a revolution in American cooking. The mint-colored cabinets and the room’s yellows, greens and browns give the kitchen a warm, subdued quality. Many of the walls are covered by pegboard, on which hang beaters, ladles, strainers and spatulas. An entire wall shines with copper pots and pans...
...very small boy, to Preservation Hall. Sweet Emma the Bell Gal and Her Dixieland Boys were playing that night. I was nine years old, so it was already late at night when we sat down on folding chairs in the front row. I noticed a small sign on a pegboard wall that said, "Traditional requests $1. Others $2. The Saints $5." My father explained the sign to me, and while the band played a lot of bouncy songs I didn't know, I watched the banjo player and each soloist in turn and waited to hear "When the Saints Come...
...that is going on at once." An old saying? Perhaps, but Agam, 38, has sawed his preaching into visual parables. He paints op art murals that change their spots entirely when the viewer passes by, makes wall constructions whose pieces may be rearranged like bits of hardware in a pegboard, or, mounted on springs, rummaged through as if they were bouquets of clanking metal flowers. He also composes bit-by-bit musical moments that sound like timbrels and woodwinds fumbling randomly up and down a sadly keyed scale. Agam likes to keep things moving...
Some of the improvements petitioned for were a larger and lower desk ("this one is too high to type comfortably"), a pull-out shelf for a typewriter, doors for the closet, a low bureau, doors between the two single rooms, a pegboard wall, more lighting, no fluorescent lights, shelves over the desk, and molding from which to hang pictures. A few girls suggested that instead of two large bedrooms there be two small bedrooms and a large living room, but most people did not comment on the room...
Assistant Professor Richard Thornton has still another method of teaching do-it-yourself science in his electrical engineering classes. He created a kit for his students consisting of a plastic pegboard and a plastic box full of tiny parts-200 resistors, 50 capacitors, 6 transistors, etc. About the size of a thin textbook, the kit costs $25-and with it several students, working together in their dormitory, can fashion such things as a digital computer or an elementary TV system...