Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Graduating Cliffies, their boyfriends, and their mommies and daddies drank champagne from little plastic cups in Hilles Library yesterday (above), and that was how Radcliffe began its Commencement Week activities...
...January 1918, the Harvard Coop reported that the war had brought a loss of $56,427.90 for a six-month period over that of the previous year. Most of the loss came in the textbook and furniture departments. Coop membership, which did not yet include a plastic credit card, fell...
...artists are not the only ones on display. Two abstract works by the Russian Serge Poliakoff, big blocks of carefully modelled color, can be seen on entering the exhibit, near a very subtle work in cement--"In the Shadow of a Field"--by ex-conservationist Raoul Ubac, while the plastic, organic cubism of an early Picabia is across the hall...
Strobes & Sadism. In what rapidly became an ambulatory return to uninhibited childhood, spectators first passed a wall of ten shimmering, plastic prisms designed by Charles Ross, next tripped up and over a glass-decked platform conceived by Stephen Antonakos, with giant candy-colored neon tubes flicking on and off in programmed patterns, lighting them from beneath and above. The experience told them exactly how an ant feels walking across a Coca-Cola sign. Then it was on to James Seawright's electronic cathedral, where their movements were recorded by an electronic brain that transmitted signals to each of twelve...
...Robert Whitman's black-draped funeral fun house, hung with violently vibrating Mylar mirrors. A screaming oscillator sadistically shivered the viewers' eardrums as it shattered their reflections on the mirrors. Equally diabolical was Boyd Mefferd's mini-discotheque, where strobe lights flashed up through colored plastic panels in the floor with such seeming moderation that many of the younger spectators felt an irresistible urge to sit or lie down in order to get closer to the beams...