Word: rubberizing
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...good-humored spoofs of Claes Oldenburg's gigantic, canvas-covered Ice Cream Cone and Falling Shoestring Potatoes, and his plaster Pecan Pie. They poked their fingers into the spongelike walls of Harold Paris' Pantomina llluma, a "feelies" room containing $10,000 worth of molded, twisted and flat rubber and polyurethane, tensor lights and stainless steel. Grandmothers cheerfully took off their shoes to clamber around in Lucas Samaras' glittering, mirror-encrusted Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit warren, Corridor, 1967. Hippies gazed dreamily through the barred door of Edward Kienholz's The State Hospital into a Lysol-scented interior...
...shouting, desktop banging and name-calling that led in one embarrassing instance to a sword duel between two incensed Deputies. The sounds from the box have made painfully clear to De Gaulle that the mere plurality that Gaullists drew in the March parliamentary elections has transformed the comfortably rubber-stamping Assembly into one that talks back and can be recalcitrant...
...week's end a relatively consistent pattern of first-quarter results could be charted. While such industries as aerospace, electronics, office equipment and banking were holding their own, automakers-plus the aligned producers of rubber and steel-were reporting weakened earnings. Overall, White House economists are using a $46 billion annual rate as the best guess for first-quarter profits-a $2,000,000,000 drop from the last quarter...
...stringed strum of the African berimbau. To the north, once-sleepy Belem has turned into a throbbing mainstream of the Amazon's economic life, thanks to the highway linking it to Brasilia. In the remote Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil's fabled old turn-of-the-century rubber capital, life moves almost as languidly as the deep black waters of the nearby Rio Negro...
...week, Dr. Richard S. Morse, head of a Commerce Department team studying motor vehicles, said that the Government was interested in "any possible means of moving people and goods around," including "fuel cells, batteries, turbines and steam engines." In fact, said Morse, "we're looking at everything from rubber bands...