Word: rubes
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Nonetheless, the building presently seems to work. Once the initial uneasiness is gotten over, there isn't really much to hate about it. It is an imaginatively and efficiently designed place to do work, emphasized by its Rube Goldbergian technologically great studio space. But it isn't a place on would want to live in, to call home, to surround one's life with its vision, shapes and materials. The edges are too hard, the materials too inorganic, the shapes too alien, the spaces too large, and the vision too monumental. All things which are only criticisms if one asks...
...Rube Goldberg would have loved this yard. The six supertankers and ore carriers that it completes in a year come as close as any ships yet to being untouched by human hands. Tsu is a world apart from the shipyards that I have seen in Europe; it is cleaner and quieter and often seems eerily empty...
...intricate, Rube Goldbergian system of primary elections clanked through its first three stages without doing fatal damage to any of the major Democratic candidates, though some were seriously hurt. How the American people were going to survive the endless spring-with 20 more primaries to go-was another question. Almost weekly, it seemed, with hurdy-gurdy and bugles, politicians were "front-running" and "slumping," buried one Tuesday to be disinterred the next week in the costly, chaotic exercise of democracy. The spectacle was beginning to give some point to Arizona Representative Morris Udall's suggestion that primaries be held...
...that, the President's speech was in many respects a disappointment. Viewers waited to be told how much their paychecks would be permitted to rise over the next year or so. They never heard. Nixon unveiled a Rube Goldberg administrative mechanism, including a new Pay Board and a Price Commission?and he gave only the sketchiest outline of all that (see following story). The President read letters from self-sacrificing citizens who applauded the wage-price freeze even though it had deprived them of raises, appealed for similar patriotism in the marketplace in the months ahead, and promised that...
...many black youths, a numbingly meaningless school system becomes a sluice into crime, narcotics, precinct lockups, courts, and then prisons, with all the disastrous expertise that they have to teach. The nation's judiciary, for which politicians presumably have the ultimate responsibility, too often seems a collaboration between Rube Goldberg and Franz Kafka...