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Word: tensor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claes Oldenburg's gigantic, canvas-covered Ice Cream Cone and Falling Shoestring Potatoes, and his plaster Pecan Pie. They poked their fingers into the spongelike walls of Harold Paris' Pantomina llluma, a "feelies" room containing $10,000 worth of molded, twisted and flat rubber and polyurethane, tensor lights and stainless steel. Grandmothers cheerfully took off their shoes to clamber around in Lucas Samaras' glittering, mirror-encrusted Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit warren, Corridor, 1967. Hippies gazed dreamily through the barred door of Edward Kienholz's The State Hospital into a Lysol-scented interior where lay the pathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: White Wings in the Sunlight | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...that Ally will drop the ever familiar "Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat" theme. Some of his cur rent campaigns have clearly been influenced by soft-selling Doyle Dane Bernbach, which developed Avis' underdog* theme. Among Ally clients are Horn & Hardart ("no frills"), Tensor Lamp ("little me") and Volvo ("small but tough"). Ally, however, insists that he is an adherent of no particular school: "I intend to anticipate the next cycle and be a forerunner as Doyle Dane has been most recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Bite Behind | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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