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...corporate capitalism in fomenting the ongoing crisis of taste in America, you might take a look at the current "number-one", where bad taste at last swims home to spawn at the fountainhead of the corporate aesthetic--Detroit, Motor City, Michigan, the town that brought you fins, concrete, smog, motels, controlled obsolescence and drive-in movie theatres...
...mounting casualty figures in Yokkaichi suggest the growing dangers of breathing Japanese air. The day that Seiichi died, Japan's second largest city, Osaka, issued its first smog alert. And within three days, in the smog-bound city of Kawasaki, the air claimed a new victim, Mrs. Natsuko Hojo, a 28-year-old mother of two children, whose death badly shocked the other victimized residents of the city...
...little or unknown artists (such as composer Aaron Copland and architect Isamu Noguchi), who have since become famous, so Sanasardo does in the 1970 piece entitled "Footnotes". The music by Eugene Lester moves from an enveloping gossip to bells chiming and thinking, then thickens again into a closing smog of gossip. This interim airiness and freshness duplicate the playful mood of New York artist Robert Natkin's hinged screens of pink squiggles...
...average Japanese thus hears constantly about his country's affluence, but he wonders where it is as he glances around his tiny living quarters, as he sweats for hours in jampacked trains and buses or bounces over potholed roads, and as he peers with smarting eyes through the ubiquitous smog. The Japanese are somewhat shamefaced that while Paris has had a complete sewage system for 200 years, only 9.2% of Japanese homes boast flush toilets. That total includes even Tokyo, whose 11.4 million residents account for one-tenth of the country's population. "We have lacked investment in social-overhead...
Under the Clean Air Act of 1970 Detroit has until 1975 to clean up automobile emissions, the prime source of smog in the nation's skies. As if to set a good example for the automakers, the Government has already begun practicing what the Act preaches. The General Services Administration, which is responsible for the maintenance of 54,000 federally owned vehicles, has converted 1,023 of the autos so that they now use compressed or liquefied natural gas, or butane and propane for fuel. The change reduces the autos' air pollutants by nearly 90%. Eventually the entire...