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...wife and 30-member Office), is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect. Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Mies van der Rohes' Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...
...Ohio's Cleveland State University worked throughout the city gathering litter and loading it into garbage trucks. They ended the day by marching to the almost pestilentially polluted Cuyahoga River. Standing at the spot where Founding Father Moses Cleaveland allegedly landed in 1796, a student held aloft a plastic bag full of garbage and intoned: "This is my bag." Another student, dressed as Cleaveland, rowed up, declared: "This place is too dirty to build a colony," and double-timed back down the river to the almost equally scabrous Lake Erie. In Letcher County, Ky., part of the most ravaged...
...Carnegie-Mellon University, Susan Peters. The tubes were guyed to earth at each end and inflated; they rose in arches. The intrepid Miss Peters ("She doesn't weigh much-say 92 pounds") put on a parachute harness, and Piene hooked her to the center ends of his plastic chrysanthemum, and let go the ropes. Up she floated, 60 ft., bobbing in the wind; then the peripheral ends of the tubes were released from the ground. Slowly the huge fronds swung vertically, shining in the klieg lights, and the whole sculpture rose to 150 ft. Says Piene: "We pulled...
...looks real enough: a pot of common weed, thin and green. But this pot is not common or even really a weed. It is plastic marijuana, a perfect replica of the real thing, minus the taste, the smell and any sensory ups or downs. Only Cannabis Sativa Inc., which merchandises the fake plant, expects to get high on its effects...
...plastic tube to pee, saving