Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genuine individuality and vitality (see color pages). > Craig Kauffman, 36, studied architecture at the University of Southern California, went on to get a master's degree in painting at U.C.L.A. Tiring of abstract expressionism, he tried painting on Plexiglas, got the idea of doing rectangular wall pieces when vacuum-molded plastic came into wide commercial use as a sealed wrapping for all kinds of merchandise. Finding no literature on the process, he sought out craftsmen at the commercial factories to learn the technique. Now he himself makes the wood molds in his studio, takes them to a factory, where...
...most drama, events shape the character. In Hunger, nothing happens-and in that vacuum occurs the conflict between the writer's mind and the world's will. At first he is euphoric. But with steady rejection and growing poverty, he becomes like his pencil, inexorably worn away until only a stub remains. Though there is an abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable...
...Texaco from 1935 to 1940, and overseer of one of the greatest engineering feats in oil-industry history; in Manhattan. Shortly after becoming boss, Rieber bought the idle Barco oilfields, 1,200,000 acres deep in the jungles of Colombia, and during three years of collaboration with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., hacked a 263-mile pipeline over the Andes to service tankers on the country's Caribbean coast...
...House seat at the age of 33. He was elected Senator at 37 and Vice President at 39. Ten years later, defeated for the Presidency and the governorship of California, he certified himself politically kaput. Most of the press agreed, including TIME. In 1966, sensing the vacuum in the party, Nixon campaigned tirelessly for G.O.P. candidates in 35 states and claimed a major share in that year's victory. Nixon is only 55, but he has been a national figure for nearly a generation. He has made survival an avocation...
...whole life becomes permeated by organic chemistry. You lose your sense of humour. You adjust to a cultural vacuum. You dream about organic compounds. You hallucinate laboratories, even blackout. And you save your mind by contem-plating the nondescript charisma of your friends the poisons...