Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to a bitter end. At times, as last Sunday's election approached, the two contenders seemed more interested in hurling insults than in dealing with the issues. Socialist François Mitterrand, running with Communist backing, accused Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing of being the tool of "these princes, these dukes, these millionaires [who] have not had a new-idea in 15 years." The patrician Giscard in turn scourged his left-wing opponent for running "a violent and nasty campaign" and for trying to revive "the quarrels of the past...
Lately scientists have been turning to a more efficient tool for creating fusion: the laser. By heating a tiny pellet of deuterium or tritium with a powerful pulse of laser light, they cause the explosive evaporation of the pellet's surface. As the material sprays off, the rest of the pellet implodes. The hydrogen nuclei are thus forced together. As early as 1968, a team of Soviet researchers under Physicist Nikolai Basov, a Nobel laureate, reported that they had used lasers to ignite a brief but clearly detectable fusion reaction. Since then, their experiments have been repeated-and improved...
Illich extols the bicycle as the ideal means of transportation. "The cyclist can reach new destinations of his choice without his tool creating new locations from where he's barred," he writes. Anyone who has ever endeavored to circumnavigate New York's Kennedy Airport on foot will immediately recognize his point. The Port Authority, in this case, has decided that even the casual visitor must ride a bus in order to merely enter the terminal next door. "The use of the bicycle is self-limiting. It allows people to create a new relationship between their life-time and life-space...
Gris responded best to objects, whether mask or tool, vessel or furniture, which were artifacts already. He dealt with them as signs rather than as Investigations of reality. Even a painting like Violin and Guitar, whose hot crimsons and acid stripes of green wall paper go far beyond the sober grays and ochres that Gris normally favored, tells us nothing of any significance about the nature of musical instruments; nor can it be said to push the analysis of form as far as Picasso or Braque were taking it at that time. But it is a marvelously controlled arrangement: frozen...
...intentions of Spinola and the military men who support him are difficult to fathom, Rogers cautioned. "It is not yet clear whether Spinola really is a humanitarian liberal or a tool of the big businessmen who want to continue grinding down the masses," he said...