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...doing a New York '60s theme as opposed to a West Coast one," Jope explains. "It's a little bit harder-edged and more plastic. It's vinyl and chrome versus communes and granola. That girl just looks as if she was meant to be in the go-go booth...
Blair, apparently not rattled by the plastic Pepsi bottles--each containing a handful of popcorn kernels--that the 5000 fans shook throughout the game, recorded 27 saves while surrendering only a pair of second period goals to lead the Crimson...
...heads for the bathroom again, going out without asking. Lori calls after him. The session winds up. The other children are putting away their Magic Markers. Lori calls, "Michael, you'd better be back in this room by the count of five." Michael re-enters at four, crushes a plastic cup under his heel, crumples his picture and throws it into the trash can. Lori stares at him. He runs toward Ralphy and slaps Ralphy's self-portrait out of his hand. He laughs, slams the door to the room from the inside. As the other children slip on their...
...garage sale of 20th century detritus. Brazil is a place, like Stalin's Russia or the British welfare state, where everything is planned but nothing quite works. A Rube Goldberg spy machine kibitzes with a roving bloodshot electronic eye, then wheels away in a deranged gait. Giggling plastic surgeons do their "snip snip slice slice" with metal clamps and Saran Wrap. Sam and a man in the next office share a desk that each keeps yanking through his own side of the dividing wall. Every romantic impulse is stifled by the system's suffocating incompetence. In one poignant scene...
...back to the future. Indeed, the future was now, and adults were encouraged to behave like children. The two strains of American design thus converged again, spectacularly, and this time the self-conscious sci-fi playfulness had a hysterical go-go edge. Just as children's toys had become plastic, throwaway items after World War II, grownups' furniture became overtly disposable. Frank Gehry's democratic cardboard-and-pressed- fiber chairs (1972) are delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting...