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...accuracy involved in making the figures exactly like human beings. Not only does the "Woman Cleaning the Rug" by Duane Hanson have real spectacles on her nose, a real Dynel wig on her head, and a real bandaid on her shin, but her vacuum cleaner is plugged into a socket in the wall. The very technological feat of creating the illusion of a woman's flesh out of synthetic polyester and fiberglass becomes the most significant thing about the sculpture. The subject matter is almost secondary. One becomes obsessed in De Andrea's "Boys Playing Soccer" with how the sculptor...
...called sensors, come in many shapes and sizes and generally emit one of three kinds of waves: ultrasonic, light and microwave. When anything disturbs the waves given out by the sensors, the circuit is broken and the alarm is tripped. The sensors can be placed anywhere: in an electric socket, on a tabletop, at a window sill, under a door mat, and even in special wires of a flyscreen...
Cosmic Confrontation. Pinter operates in isolation cells of intense domesticity. If there is a world outside the womb walls of his plays, no one could guess it. Beckett is in a paralyzed eye-socket-to-eye-socket confrontation with a cosmos vacated by God. He refuses to move beyond his grief. Bond says, in effect: "O.K., God is dead, but we've got to work out an ethic whereby we can survive on this planet with some degree of decency." Unlike Pinter, who seems to accept violence as a norm, Bond indicts the value vacuum and brutal boredom...
Just let me at your socket...
Since late 1962, Charnley has used the polyethylene socket, which is also cemented in place with methyl methacrylate. In an intensive follow-up of his first 500 cases, Charnley has found the cement holding perfectly. The polyethylene, originally 10 mm. thick, wears away at the rate of about 1 mm. in five years. "No discomfort should be noticed until at least 50% has worn away," he says, "and if that happens, we can always replace the socket...