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Throughout, the author displays a certainty about what is concrete in ''ordinary life" that would have baffled 2,000 years' worth of philosophers. All of his arguments hang on the Tinkertoy division between what is real and good (trees, marshes, noble savages) and what is deceitful (all artifacts of civilization, especially TV). From this it follows that television 1) obscures the true and the beautiful, 2) turns people into standard-issue consumers, 3) bombards them with artificial light and foreign images and 4) blots out all messages that are inimical to its own survival...
...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...
...Paris-New York," the show of some 400 paintings and sculptures installed throughout the summer in Paris' new Tinkertoy Louvre, the Pompidou Center, is one of the most eagerly awaited modern art exhibitions in years. Its theme is epic. For 75 years, a deep current of cultural influence ran between France and America, bearing with it a rich mix of avant-garde nutrients. From 1900 to the end of World War II it flowed west, so that the forms of American modernism were almost all based on prototypes offered by the School of Paris from Cézanne...
...self-assured smirk, and his patented tumbles are the best since those in silent movies. One of the program's high points is a put-on of the Hertz Rent-A-Car ad featuring high-stepping Football Star O.J. Simpson. Low-stepping Chevy looks like a disintegrating Tinkertoy, ricocheting through a crowded air terminal on his way to the parking...
Those who were disappointed that 1974 failed to turn up a new grand vizier of rock may find that the guitar synthesizer will jolt pop music back to life. But there are drawbacks. The road model of this sonic Tinkertoy costs $35,000. At first, guitarists are elated by the possibility of playing two quarter-tones with infinite sustain on the same string. Elation turns to concern, however, when they find that they must learn a whole new technique. "You have to play it gently," says Guitarist Steve Howe of Yes. Jazz-Rock Guitarist John McLaughlin estimates that he will...