Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Airtrans. To move people round the airport there is Airtrans, a 13-mile system of automatic electric-powered tracked vehicles that ride on a cushion of air. The system can carry 9,000 passengers, 6,000 pieces of baggage and 70,000 lbs. of mail every hour. Even though transit passengers may have to cover more than three miles from one plane to another, they can reach any point in the airport in about ten minutes...
...Ambassador to Jamaica, Millionaire Businessman Vincent de Roulet did not exactly keep a low diplomatic profile. He kept his 90-ft. luxury yacht Patrina docked in sunny Kingston harbor. He had 17 race horses and ran them at the local Cayman track. In his gray Checker limousine lay a cushion with the inscription: "This is my car and I sit where I please...
...into the photographic medium did not diminish its power. The collection of Arbus's work at the Worcester Art Museum testifies to this. Repulsion and fascination are wrenched out of your guts when your eyes interlock with those of dwarves, transvestites, nudists, howling babies, and even a human pin cushion. What small sympathy you can muster is directed inward, as you beg for relief from Arbus's harrowing onslaught, and are left numb when none comes. The impact grows stronger as the images accumulate, making it impossible to steel yourself against further mental Iaceration...
...integrate themselves into society and assuage their alienation. She did not deal with those who had already withdrawn--the winos, drunks, and dope freaks. Some altered their lives drastically in order to present a new self-image--changing sex, tattooing a whole body, becoming a human pin cushion with sharp needles jabbed through cheeks, lips, and neck. Others hide deep beneath layers of sequinned veils, Halloween masks, garish sunglasses, or gobs of heavy makeup. Arbus's titles pinpoint exactly the accoutrements used to buttress egos--"A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, New York City...
...delirium of concrete," and the huge, fume-filled industrial port of Marghera. Any action to help Venice often turns out to harm her ugly sisters. For example, Venice is sinking in part because the pumping of fresh water from artesian wells in Mestre and Marghera depletes the underground "cushion" of water on which Venice floats. If the pumping is stopped to save Venice, Mestre and Marghera will go thirsty...