Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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George Brecht, 30, of Greenwich Village has produced a Medicine Chest which is just what the title says it is-a medicine chest whose contents the viewer can rearrange and sniff at will, thus in theory entering into the artist's special world. Irving Kriesberg's Lovers XI 1957 is a double frame of moving panels that the viewer can change and thereby create "paintings" of his own. To make Grand-maw's Boy, Allan Kaprow, 32, produced a collage of worn pieces of cloth that were glued next to the fading photograph...
...this brings up the thought that if there are beings on other planets watching these things sent up from earth, are there Boris Artzybasheffs up there who can do as good a job of depicting the devices they are sending our way to sniff and probe...
Detroit got the strongest sniff (see below). U.S. department store-sales, after one of the best Easter seasons on record, were up 10% over last year's in the last week of April, helping to push seasonally adjusted sales for the month to a new April record. Sales were running 17% ahead of last year's in the New York area, 16% in Cleveland, 11% in Atlanta, 7% in Chicago. The consumer has shaken his earlier caution about buying on credit; consumer installment credit is still climbing, after a seasonally adjusted $408 million gain in March, that brought...
...nation's cigarettes. Last year vending machines sold 2 billion cups of coffee, 20% of the nation's candy bars and soft drinks. More than 4,000,000 robot vendors offer everything from onion soup and insurance to a spray of French perfume or a 30-second sniff of oxygen to ease hangovers. And if the coffee isn't quite like home, it's at least hot and close at hand...
...General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations and ship them to our next Moto-rama." An elderly lady observed with a sniff that old Henry Ford "wouldn't have liked all this smoking...