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...material survives in some form, and technology adds to its longevity. The tin can used to rust away; now comes the immortal aluminum can, which may outlast the Pyramids. Each year, the U.S. produces 48 billion cans, plus 28 billion long-lived bottles and jars. Paced by hardy plastic containers, the average American's annual output of 1,600 lbs. of solid waste is rising by more than 4% a year. Disposal already costs $3 billion a year...
...environ ments contain figurative art. Buffalo's recent "Second Festival of the Arts Today," staged at the Albright-Knox Gallery (TIME, March 15), included five abstract environments. Drollest among them was the Pneumatic Garden of Eden, created by M.I.T.'s Otto Piene, in which huge, air-filled plastic tubes waved in the air like undersea coral growths in a darkened room lit at shin level by slowly flashing lights. Delicately disturbing was Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room No. 2, part of the Albright's permanent collection. The room (see overleaf) was plated with mirrors on the walls...
...musician, you are an atomic engineer. Yet I hesitate to reject it. Beethoven and Mozart never heard the sounds of today-the ringing of a telephone, the roar of a jet engine starting. If they had, perhaps they would have utilized them in their music. The same goes for plastic art. Leonardo da Vinci never saw New York City at night. Rembrandt didn't see the vistas that our astronauts have seen. Frankly, I would like to work with these composers who write crazy music, but they are terribly isolated. They should collaborate with performers; then, instead of looking...
...Plastic Seaweed. As usual, man has contributed his share to the process of erosion. He has lined the beaches with hotels, apartments and roads, leveled the high dunes that blocked his view, thus stripping them of their protective grasses. Navigational jetties, jutting into the sea to protect shipping at river mouths, and man-made inlets change the pattern of offshore currents and block the littoral flow of sand to downdrift beaches, literally starving them out. There is no easy way to combat erosion. All along the Atlantic, communities have lined their beaches with "groins" (short jetties) in hopes of trapping...
...grass that has been developed by North Carolina State University grows 4 ft. high in twelve months. Ocean City, N.J., is experimenting with nylon bags that can be filled on the spot with sand and used as temporary groins. On Wallops Island, Va., NASA has proposed planting plastic seaweed just beyond the surf line to reduce the action of the waves...