Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although this year's project is for the summer only, the program's founders says they hope to expand it into a full-year program beginning...
...also the year that chickenwire was transformed into shimmering, seven-foot walls of ice in the Quad as part of a landscape art project. This was one of three such projects that tried to turn the newly-remodeled greensward into a postmodern palette. One artist threatened to tiger-stripe the lawn with strips of orange sod, but angry Quadlings forced her to content herself with some white lime lines that made the Quad into an airplane runway...
...least the pastel picnic tables that, as the third project, still dot the Quad do serve some useful purpose, but they too are little more than burlesque--thanks to Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman's infamous observation about picnic tables: "Either you've sat on them or you've gotten laid on them." It wasn't the most practical idea to allow artists to indulge their whimsy at the expense of the hundreds of students who wanted to play frisbee on the field or walk across it unimpeded, but the concept and the execution alike were good...
...joint expedition to Mars. At best, they point out, the success of any joint mission would rest on the fragile foundation of the Soviet leader's revival of detente with the West. Could good relations between the superpowers, they ask, last long enough to complete, say, a ten-year project? "There are potential benefits to us from such a mission," says U.S. Space Watcher Nicholas Johnson. "But there is great uncertainty about the political environment...
...Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...