Word: whirligig
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Synthetic extensions have always been cheaper, but, coarse in texture and limited in style and color, they were less attractive. The new synthetics, however, are much improved and offer a whirligig of choice. Amekor, which supplies the line of extensions marketed by the model Beverly Johnson, saw its sales jump from $25 million five years ago to $100 million last year, in large part because of a synthetic line that offers 40 styles and 20 colors...
...propaganda--Heartfield and Georg Grosz each have their Hitler caricatures, but the meat of Weimar thought is elsewhere. Technology is everywhere: in the medium of photography, in Bauhaus design, in the mannequins of Josef Albers and Oskar Schlemmer, in the pipes and puppets in the portraiture section. The noisy whirligig of modern technology is both embraced in dada photo-montages of basketball-headed humanoids and controlled through the neat, organized designs of Herbert Bayer's movie house and exhibition pavilion, diagrams simultaneously full of primary color and filled with stark black lines. In responding to industrialized modern culture so precociously...
...first decade, the center's collection has grown to include 25,000 titles. The true measure of its achievement is comparative: scholars estimate that only about 40,000 works were ever printed in Yiddish. With these riches, the center has become a whirligig of cultural promotion, keeping pace with a resurgent interest in Yiddish around the world. It runs an adult-education seminar and a student-intern program, and, using Yiddish-speaking actors in Israel, is taping entire novels. This profusion delights Lansky, whose accomplishments were recognized last July by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago...