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...abstract sculptures, from huge sheets of hammered copper to tiny, tinkling aluminum mobiles. But Naum Gabo, a 62-year-old Russian, is the first sculptor to make his work almost invisible. Last week a syth Street gallery showed a few of his sculptures, mostly pieces of transparent plastic put together in sharp angles and looping curves to form abstractions as still and shiny-and about as warming-as winter sunlight...
Torsion, Crystallic Image, Construction in Space with Crystal Center. With their bridges and platforms, their delicate plastic cutouts, their gleaming spider webs of plastic thread, they tend to look like the inner ears of a robot or like railway stations in some suburb on Mars...
...Porous Plastic. For use in rainwear, baby pants and other items that should let in air but be waterproof, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. announced a "porolated" vinylfilm that is seven times as permeable to air as ordinary plastic film...
...cooled by a refrigerator powerful enough to air-condition an average movie theater. The refrigerator accounts for 10% of the empty weight of the X3, and absorbs 2,600 horsepower from its engines. Despite all this cooling, the windows of the cockpit (which must be glass, not plastic) are expected to get hot enough to burn Bridgeman's hands...
...Duca's first steps was to get a new medium for his youngsters, something that they could work in more easily than ordinary oils or water colors. He hit on a resin plastic which stays bright when dry, does not rub off, or run together when slopped on. The kids took to it like ducks to water. Sometimes Duca herds his charges to museums to see what grown-up professionals have accomplished, but he lets the boys draw their own conclusions from their observations...