Word: piping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otherwise heavily censored, the newspapers carry great numbers of letters from frustrated readers. One complained that there were no electric heaters to be bought in Prague. A smoker lamented that he could buy pipes but not pipe cleaners, which after all are "just a piece of wire with some rough string wound around it." Another reader beefed because the only shoelaces on sale were so coarse and long that they were suitable only "for elephant boots." Still another wondered if the government bureaucracy could not cut back on its quintuplicate forms so that the toilet paper shortage could be alleviated...
Like Bruce Baillie's Mass for the Sious Dead Gershfield borrows freely from our collective mythology, a mythology composed, like his film from a series of inadequate images. The Indian on the nickel pervades the first two minutes, documentary footage of Indians cooking, eating, smoking a pipe in full headdress. All the color footage seems to have been solarized; the effect is to remove most of the colors and warp the remaining two or three primaries, giving every frame an hallucinatory quality. Purple warriors move out to hunt against an ocher...
...pipe cleaner trees...
Moving from the cavernous lobby of M.I.T.'s Building 7 to the second floor administrative offices in Building 3, about thirty students- led by a group of four wielding a five- foot iron-pipe length forced open a little-used door to the private offices of President Howard W. Johnson...
Accordingly, he was not afraid of death and lived long and happily. He would have eaten cyclamates without a qualm, but he was not concerned about being fat either. And so, puffing gently at his pipe and sipping his whisky, he lived on, chatting with other old men, much too contented...