Word: automatic
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...remote in time from it as ours is from ancient Greece. The neons still work, but they do so with fitful spareness; a cunningly formed squiggle lights up here or there, or a labyrinth of reversed and superimposed red letters glows inside a dark plastic box. They spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense of being broken, but in the "historical" sense of archaic fragments: the illegible pictograph, the stone bearing a message in a dead language, the passage written in Minoan Linear B. The work...
...Horn & Hardart is a bit of Americana, isn't it? I suppose anyone who ever visited New York City wanted to go to Horn & Hardart to put nickels, dimes and more lately quarters in the Automat windows...
...Broadway and 46th Street Automat, an aging ex-vaudevillian named Edna Thayer belts out tunes like Don't Dunk a Doughnut Unless You Know How to Dunk...
...money to help buy Hanover House Industries, a $17 million-a-year mail-order business. Guterman also is talking joint hotel-restaurant ventures with a big motel builder. The vaudeville aura seems to have carried him away, however; he has approached Soviet authorities with the idea of opening an Automat in Moscow. "Can you imagine the excitement that would provoke?" he beams...
With Blodgett domesticated, Smackenfelt seems to develop an unnatural desire to be helpful. Dressed as a priest for a part in a play, he wanders into an automat between shows and starts dispensing spiritual advice to a woman at his table. During a brief job at a large corporation, he impersonates a vice president and summarily fires those who seem unhappy in their work, He is finally caught and dismissed for "malversation of coffee break...