Word: rubes
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...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...
...real rifle, a sculpted wooden rifle, a painted rifle, silk-screened images of photographic rifles -all toy with vision. He inserted a real machine gun, glued real pencils to Gorky's desk, painted over still photographs of the revolution, added real plumbing ("It looks like a mysterious Rube Goldberg whisky still," he quips) to the section on Soviet industrialization. The final result: a collection of evocative images that collide like the fast-cutting montage of film...
...rusticity, Shuman is no rube. He is as well-known in the halls of Congress as he is on the courthouse square in Sullivan. Recently, when Shuman showed up on Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Agriculture Committee on the 1965 farm bill, it was like old home week. "Hello, Charlie," called Committee Chairman Allen Ellender as Shuman walked in. "How are you, Charlie?" inquired Vermont Republican George Aiken. Shuman has a reputation for having facts at his fingertips and needing no assistance when he has something to say. When Louisiana's Ellender offered to let several Farm...