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...have gone one step further in trying to be novel and have designed menus for clients on every conceivable material: wood, leather, plastic, burlap, suede, velvet, etc. The most unique was a menu for a medical convention-printed on the back of a large mustard plaster...
...extra, as when she discussed the city's unions and concluded, "Nothing's simple anymore. We'll just have to distinguish between good unions and bad, between people living in the past out of stubbornness or out of dire necessity. If the city were sprayed with plastic right now, we would preserve samples of life from the past two centuries, with the transportation system representing the oldest thing alive...
...life styles. The Fugs developed a special brand of buffoonery that included two outrageous onstage stunts now favored by the MC5: removing their clothes and burning the U.S. flag. The Mothers of Invention honed a cutting musical satire ("It's such a drag to have to love a plastic Mom and Dad"). San Francisco's Country Joe and The Fish have focused on the war in Viet Nam as a symptom of national sickness ("Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home...
...honest workmanship. Says Westermann: "I think they are beautiful. They're comfortable and give your ankles support." Wet Flower is his imagination at its most antic. Stylized flowers droop over a stone inscribed: "The pain and glory are half the story, the rest being rain." Droplets of clear plastic drip on the inside of the glass. "It's a flower on a rainy day seen through a window," he says...
...colored lights flicker over the ceiling and walls. New arrivals are led to platforms, helped into their own translucent togas and encouraged to doff as many of their clothes as they wish. Stereo headphones are fitted by a delicate-fingered attendant, and plugged into the center of the platform; plastic pillows are passed out. Wordless gestures suggest that instant relaxation is the order...