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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...
Frank A. Marciano, superintendent of Main Area Maintenance for B&G, said last week the walls of some of the bathrooms of Canaday--one of the most overcrowded University housing facilities--had to be rebuilt because "the sheetrock material behind the showers is not conducive to long-term wear. Canaday is poorly designed--it's as simple as that...
...Children won the right to divorce their parents and cruised "singlekids' bars" trying to find new ones; Hollywood capitalized on the trend with a smash-hit movie, Looking for Mr. and Mrs. Goodbar. Food shortages put the Fat Look in vogue, and fashion-conscious women draped themselves in Sheetrock, paper lamb-chop collars and plastic garbage bags. As the population grew older, self-conscious young people added years with Agequake makeup...
...mainstream, and even if the building is so underwired that any dance performances in it have to be lit with electricity from Agassiz Theatre, its high ceilings and broad windows give it an ambience and a flexibility and--you might say-an "underwhelmingness" that no modern white-paint sheetrock-and-ten-foot-ceiling dance studio can match...