Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent Lyndon Johnson into transports of delight. After reluctantly escaping from his admirers, Johnson winked at aides, chortled and asked: "Now how was that for a crowd?" "Oh," replied a staffer, "pretty good." For a moment, Lyndon looked as though he had been smacked in the face with a wet mop. Then he realized that he was being joshed, and grinned more broadly than ever...
...Hooray for Morey McDaniel [Aug. 28] and his fight against telephone hucksters! Although we victims still possess the ultimate weapon-the option of hanging up the receiver-before we can exercise this option we will have already left a trail of wet footprints to the phone or helplessly watched the soup boil over. I'll take asterisks. MRS. ROY H. COFER Berkeley, Calif...
Some new graphics treat paper itself like a sculptor's bas-relief. Colombian-born Omar Rayo, 36, makes an inkless intaglio, such as From My Zoo, by building up patterned layers of cardboard coated with rabbit glue and gesso, then pressing wet paper under hundreds of pounds of pressure to emboss a white-on-white print. Boris Margo, 62, similarly makes a "cellocut" by carving into celluloid, coating it with copper, and stamping it into uninked paper...
...Ponce de Leon, 42, shows most dramatically how far the print-makers have gone past the conventional idea of pressing paper to a plane surface. To make his Terminus, he printed seven colors off a metal plate slathered with key chains, pebbles, even a straw place mat. He runs wet paper through his hydraulic press, which is capable of 10,000 Ibs. pressure, gets an elaborate multicolor abstract...
...Joseph F. McCarthy and Robert Welch must be fought but kept in perspective. After all, there has always been one or another on the rampage in every period of American history: "While among ourselves we may on occasion suspect that A.D.A. could not fight its way out of a wet paper sack, we take the John Birch Society on its own assessment as a tightly knit, single-purposed conspiratorial cadre. There are a lot of things that scare me to death-nuclear war, automobile accidents, lung cancer, to mention but three-but I have only a limited time to devote...