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...Lieutenant John Norton of the Cambridge police noted that crimes against women from exhibitionism to sexual assault, are everyday occurrences. particularly in the area of the Common...
...soldier, from a working-class family and not too bright. Most American families who think the ADA is some sort of weed-killer know someone personally very much like Calley. News reports about "ground fire at Fire-base Six" and antiwar slogans about napalm can seem quite divorced from everyday realities of American life, but Calley is someone to identify with...
Aspiring rejasers can find ample tips in books like Joan Ranson Shortney's How to Live on Nothing (Pocket Books; 95?), which includes a 100-item check list for transforming everyday discards. A light bulb, for instance, makes a handy sock-darning egg. With blackboard paint, an old window shade becomes a roll-up chalkboard for children. By nailing upturned bottle caps to a board, the kids can make a front-door footscraper. These days, rejasers even dump junked cars neatly offshore: the hulks act like coral reefs, attracting fish-and fishermen...
...Trash. FORTUNE Art Director Walter Allner sees the everyday detritus of a consumer society in a different light: "I have such respect for the engineers and designers who spend literally hundreds of hours designing products and their packaging that I want to extend the usefulness of things." Allner's Manhattan apartment is full of intriguing results. Crushed tin cans have become fancy wall friezes; a broken wine bottle is redesigned as a stunning rose vase; and huge clusters of beer bottles are glued together to make abstract sculptures. On one wall, a shadow-box assemblage of coffee-can keys...
...These images are not called upon to reproduce reality, but to act as models used in discussing, describing, criticizing reality. Rather than collecting a predominance of "convincing" visual examples of the system's brutality-Newsreel-like riot footage, malnutrition scenes, etc.-Solanas concentrates on the brutality (or ease) of everyday class life, presenting images of the human recipients-victims of profiteers-by the logical extension of the system's statistical inequalities being considered. These class depictions (signs) are designed to mediate larger social contradictions to a concrete, human, class-as opposed to a "realistic" individual-level...