Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...units containing kitchen and bathroom. One by one, the units were lowered by a 250-ft. crane through holes cut in the roof and upper floors, and placed inside. Thus, each apartment got a brand-new, modern service core, including a 20-in. gas range, 10-cu.-ft. refrigerator, stainless-steel sink and complete bathroom with tub, shower, porcelain-finished bowl and toilet...
Into place atop a pedestal in front of the Smithsonian Institution's new Museum of History and Technology last week went an 8-ft.-high, stainless-steel piece of abstract sculpture designed by New York's José de Rivera, 62, and executed with the aid of fellow New York Abstractionist Roy Gussow, 48. In terms of institutional oneupmanship, the work gives the Smithsonian the distinction of placing the first abstract sculpture on the capital's Mall, which will eventually be blooming with them: Hostess Gwen Cafritz is donating an Alexander Calder stabile-mobile that will...
...building; but its architect, Walker O. Cain, called on De Rivera instead. De Rivera has titled his 20th century piece Infinity, explaining modestly that he named it that solely to prevent the U.S. Government from giving it a still more pretentious name. He made its swooping, stainless-steel lines by extruding a rod of steel and welding its ends together, alternately heating and hammering it like the village smithy-and he has become partly deaf as a result of years of this kind of work...
...like a medieval executioner. His domestic life is equally grim. His wife is preoccupied with the puppets and parrots on their mammoth television screen. The two live in that great monument to sterility: a mod house. Streamlined furniture done up in cool blues and decorator yellows. The warmth of stainless steel...
Just as matter-of-factly the patient imagines that his blood or urine sample will go to a laboratory filled with shiny, sterile stainless steel and glassware, to be worked over by skilled technicians in white coats. He has no doubt about the accuracy of the results, because his doctor shows none. That blind faith is unjustified, a succession of medical experts told the Senate antitrust subcommittee last week. In fact, Dr. David...