Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Premier was evidently shaken. He showed up nearly an hour late for dinner, and omitted some prepared remarks thanking the citizens of Ottawa for "the hospitality they have shown us." Later, Kosygin was carefully cocooned by security men as he toured a research center and a pulp factory outside Ottawa, and met with businessmen in Montreal before flying off to Vancouver and Edmonton for some high-level tourism...
America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums...
...consistency of theme, even to those who in the '40s and '50s could not stomach it. Massculture artifacts are common coin in gallery art today; they were not so when Paolozzi, working in Paris, produced a whole series of collages scissored from American magazines-cover blondes from pulp thrillers, bombers and Jell-O from LIFE. Fifteen years ahead of time he predicted the grotesque iconography of lushness, repetition and violence that American artists would eventually discover in their own culture. In 1952 he helped form the Independent group in London whose aim was to present mass culture...
...have to ask. Doc was the Hercules of the '30s, the natural father of both Superman and James Bond. Once a month, back before the war, every red-blooded American boy who could lay his hands on 10? plunked it down for a Street & Smith pulp called Doc Savage magazine. Now, once a month and at about seven times the price, any red-blooded middle-aged man who pines for the gore of yore can renew his literary acquaintance with derring...
Anyone who lives near a paper mill knows that smell-a rotten-egg, spoiled-cabbage stink that pours forth when wood pulp is cooked to produce paper. Now, thanks to a small industrial furnace company's work in Muskegon, Mich., the awful stink...