Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often I find myself standing over the immortal copier [March 1] and wondering why I am copying some immaterial material that no one will look at, and that will just give me something more to file. But I would hate to see the day when someone pulls the plug and we're left to carbons and those fun mimeographs that I grew up on in grade school...
...journalists regarding Nixon's trip to China [Feb. 16] as a mystery? Nixon will emerge as a lobbyist for China to plug for such things as "most favored nation" status, huge loans and all the other sweet deals that ultimately bilk the U.S. taxpayer...
Oldenburg's drawings and sculpture realize the magic of his thought. The current exhibition, held jointly at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston, and Hayden Gallery at MIT, focuses on six themes the Swedish-born sculptor has developed over the last ten years: "Geometric Mouse", "Three-way Plug", "Clothespin", "Fagends", "Typewriter Eraser", and "Standing Mitt with Ball". In each case, Oldenburg considers a commonplace object, analyzes it in terms of texture, volume, form, etc., then manipulates the essence he has extracted. Using a process of free association, he fuses images, correlating aspects of the original object to other things...
Quite literally, Oldenburg envisions these objects--clothespins, or three-way plugs--as monuments. With the exception of the Typewriter Eraser, each has been executed on a colossal scale. These colossi are impressive: a ten-foot clothespin towers up in golden splendour, refined, stripped to bare geometric form; a 20-foot vinyl three-way plug hangs limply from the ceiling, inviting caresses. (In the present exhibit, the larger pieces are at MIT, while the drawings, for the most part, are at the ICA. The MIT part of the exhibit should be seen after the ICA portion, since the large sculptures...
...inanity wasn't restricted to the announcing. Chevrolet paid ABC $69,000 for a one-minute commercial showing Chevy's six small cars out in the snow on the side of a mountain, while a chorus rhymed Chevrolet with U. S. of A. over and over, and the main plug came from a dude in front of a standup piano amongst the cars, in the snow, in the middle of nowhere...