Word: sheetrock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tons had been wrapped around heating pipes and furnaces, sprayed onto girders and mixed into tiles at a cost of 25 cents per sq. ft. Now property owners are often spending 100 times that amount to remove it, cover it with a sealant, or enclose it with materials like Sheetrock...
...cheap to build. But it just might be that the American patrons of mainstream modernism were not as dumb or masochistic about their glass boxes as Wolfe thinks. What if they felt, on some instinctive level, that those cost-efficient termitaries with one marble foyer and a thousand Sheetrock cells disclosed some truth about power, authority and social organization in American corporate life, a truth which the captains of industry and business embraced? What if the glass box was the all-American self-expression that Wolfe claims is not there? His book does not broach that possibility, yet it makes...