Word: plastic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hole in the Doughnut. Aero-Go's gadget goes to work after ground crews have rolled a plane's wheels onto small, dolly-like platforms. Underneath each platform are air bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...
Bill Bellinger, 29, makes dumb-looking sculptures that consist of a piece of rope slung from floor to ceiling. Keith Sonnier, 27, puddles flimsily sensuous Dacron on the floor. David Lee, 31, hangs clear sheets of plastic from the rafters. Richard Tuttle, 27, tacks up wrinkled octagons of canvas...
...fact, on a deeper level Forman's film and his previous release, Loves of a Blonde, are so relaxed and unimposing that they offer a real contrast to contemporary cinematography. With no hero, no violent or explosive action, and no plastic characters with expressions of angst molded into their features, this portrait of Czech life is singular in its impact. Instead of extraordinary experience or bigger than life tragedy, there are pathetic vignettes about totally unexplained but quite believeable people. In place of the complete involvement of constructed suspense, there is the uneventful yet amusing commonplace. It is reality...
AMIDST the plastic flora and fauna of Disneyland, a small and inconspicuous pavilion called The Art of Animation offers interesting lessons in cartoon esthetics. The literal nature of Disney's imagination extended past content into form, and the realistic movement in his animation enabled him to apply classical film technique to the product of his studio. The Disneyland display, a series of museum pieces and classic film technique to the product of his studio. The Disneyland display, a series of museum pieces and classic frame blow-ups, led to a projected sequence from one of the full-length cartoons--Sleeping...
...where building codes, union labor and obstructive bureaucrats are scarce, imaginative architects and builders have lately achieved some triumphs. To replace the reeking hovels inhabited by California migrant farm workers, Berkeley Architects Sanford Hirshen and Sim Van der Ryn designed $1,200 shelters of paper and plastic foam that fold up like accordions. So far, 20 communities of these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab packages to Alabama and Louisiana...