Word: styrofoam
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...plane, as designed, measures 107 feet from wingtip to wingtip and has a small, one-man fuselage. The wing frames are built from balsa wood covered with saran wrap, while the leading edges are constructed of "foamulum," a newly invented light-weight aluminum compound resembling styrofoam in appearance. In all, without a pilot, the plane weighs 119 pounds...
...there is no anchor man on Sesame Street. Children wander through stores and around sidewalks, skipping rope and chatting with the hosts. Learning seems almost a byproduct of fun. Why lecture kids when you can wrap the lesson in a joke? Example: the cast passes around a Styrofoam letter J. Each one repeats, "J," until the object reaches Cookie Monster. He booms: "D." The cast choruses: "D?" Monster: "Licious!" And he eats it. Guest teachers drop in all the time. Laugh-ln's Arte Johnson, in his traditional German helmet, discusses height: "Tall people bump their heads...
Cubed Nude. Figure sculpture comes in a variety of formats. Full-length photographs were mounted on all four sides of a slab-shaped Styrofoam dummy to create Dale Quarterman's portrait of a leather-jacketed girl. From the back and sides, the girl is whole and clothed, but the dummy is cut out in front to reveal her in successively diminishing images, one within the other. In the last and smallest, she is completely nude. New Yorker Lyn Wells has made a life-size portrait of a neighbor by printing back and front views on sensitized linen, sewing...