Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ELDO is meant to give Europe a space capability of its own and not leave all the glory to the U.S. and Russia. The trouble with ELDO, aside from the shortage of capital and technological resources in Europe, is that its Europa-I vehicle has the feel of a Rube Goldberg totem pole. The British are to pay for 38.79% of the costs and provide the first stage; the French, 23.93% and the second stage; the Germans, 22.01% and the third stage; the Italians, 9.78% and the payload; the Belgians 2.85% and the downrange guidance station; the Dutch...
During the past five years, some 15,000 backyard mechanics have bolt ed souped-up engines onto skeleton aluminum frames, stuck on a couple of tractor seats and suspended the entire Rube Goldberg contraptions on bloated airplane tires - sometimes two up front and four in back. Organized into a par cel of clubs, the enthusiasts range from young mothers to 70-year-old business men, from hard-nosed competitors to misty-eyed naturalists. They all have one thing in common - a child's impatience for the next rally or picnic...
...century of cinema, television, and indeed Rube Goldberg, it was inevitable that art would start moving too. Now, hard on the heels of op artists, who address their work to the retina, has come a widespread number of "kinetic" artists, who try to combine mechanics and art. They are exploiting the human eye's capacity to perceive motion, and their work is the newest watchword on the fast-moving international gallery scene. Manhattan's avant-garde Jewish Museum is currently showing 102 works by kineticism's established practitioners, Jean Tinguely and Nicolas Schöffer. In Boston...
...quality of training has improved along with the caliber of the players, according to Fadden. Referring to the old machines used in physio-therapy, he said. "Talk about Rube Goldberg machines, they weren't even shockproof like today...
With the usual quirk of fads, the bangasa is out of fashion in Japan. To be seen with a bangasa in Tokyo is to be branded a rube. The modern Japanese now prefers to keep off the raindrops with one of those nice American-style black umbrellas...