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...promising that Breakthrough would achieve "total new systems of housing construction." In fact, almost none of the winners offered technological ideas that are particularly exciting. Instead, Romney conceded last week, the plans display "what is possible under existing technology." Of the 22 systems, six use wood, five metal, two plastic-foam panels, two glass-fiber panels, and seven concrete. Romney pointed out that the selections at least involve some shift away from increasingly scarce and costly wood. For example, Shelley System of Puerto Rico uses prefabricated concrete modules that are stacked in checkerboard fashion...
William H. Wainwright worked with Kepes on "Photoclastic Floor," a path of light-polarizing plastic squares which change colors where stepped on. Their soft-edged patterns have the more-acidthan-the-Favves coloring that only this age could manufacture. Some visitors hesitated to step on their pristine surfaces. "Photoelastic Floor" is hardy enough to be walked on, however, and could be set into sidewalks, playgrounds and floors...
...WHICH can feed a number of thematic interpretations. Antonioni shows us how the machinations of American society crush spontaneous beauty. His survey of the clashing enclaves of that society-the supercorporation in its computerized citadels of gleaming cold plastic, the angry cells of student revolutionaries, the frighteningly busy shops of unsmiling L. A. gun merchants, the calmly professional violence of city jail-clearly delimits who stomps and who gets stomped. The bastions of power, Antonioni says, are stagnant, sadistic, and vengefully jealous of youthful vigor. The existential point sounds very much like Ken Kesey's argument that the price...
...souvenir-decalled camper with his fat, snorting wife and a brownie box camera, and no less fiery a militant than Kathleen Cleaver chairs the student meeting. And after enough contrasts of clips of gorgeous desert scenes interspersed with unbelievably Orwellian visions of the supercorporation (they used tanned mannequins, plastic-grass golf courses, and rubber food in their real estate ads), the viewer is fairly certain that there are poles in American society and knows which one he'd rather identify with. But after bombarding us with a heavy surplus of clues, Antonioni cuts them off almost altogether, leaving an amorphous...
...know what to do with a slick script except stretch its banality a little further. You a paying audience, are offered fat sequences of self-conscious camerawork, which having nothing better to do than look at the dimly attractive props of Hollywood Purgatory-the pretty starlet, the lush plastic colors, and that good-looking Steve McQueen...