Word: junked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...east turn at 160 m.p.h. His 1963 Ford caromed off the retaining wall, skidded 200 yds. on its top and burst into flames. Before anyone could bat an eye, the track was covered with slewing, sliding cars, piling into each other. Eleven were more or less reduced to junk, but, incredibly, nobody was seriously injured...
...shoes produced. Russian refrigerator factories received 56,000 written complaints about faulty products-including refrigerators from the Baku factory lacking refrigerant gas in their coils. As a result of the consumer's stiffening standards and an increased inclination to complain, an incredible $3 billion worth of unsellable junk has accumulated in Soviet inventories...
...Junk Show. While curators from Aachen to Zweibrücken eagerly await the disposition of the finest work, at least one government-endowed research foundation in Germany would like to get its hands on the junk. Munich's Institute for Contemporary History is attempting a scientific analysis of Nazism, and one of its pet ideas is a public exhibit of what Hitler liked. The last time art was displayed in Germany for such unartistic reasons was the infamous 1938 degenerate art show-composed of what Hitler did not like...
...handy and symptomatic. It should be reported, in fairness, that its art is no worse than half of the things on Newbury Street (the Boston Galleries) or Madison Avenue. And one or two things are included that could go anywhere: a painting by Elizabeth O. Jones and a junk sculpture, "Bird," by Stanley Sheldon, stand...
...discredited... insane, ugly, revolting art must be substituted... Remove all inspiring and beautiful art from exhibitions and substitute degenerate art in its place. Have murals painted out, abstract art substituted. Try for meaningless emptiness... Eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. Tie Junk together and set it up as sculpture. Public justification--This is the NEW art, advanced, progressive, creative...