Word: traps
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Besides vindicating non-table manners, Rudofsky-assisted by Cooper-Hewitt's Lucy Fellowes-assembles a widely (some would say wildly) eclectic domestic history. In one display he indicts chairs as uncomfortable and unhealthy, particularly the infant high chair ("a vicious, sado-pedagogic trap, as humiliating to a child as a leash is to a dog"). Elsewhere, he charts the sly history of the swing, which he describes in his book as "a pale copy of a onetime bold device for generating violent motion and emotion" of a sexual nature, mostly in women. He suggests that all forms of "bobbing...
...lest anyone fall into the trap of stereotyping the hulking Durgin and his mates as lunks, consider that the Crimson offense has seven--count 'em--blocking systems, each with manifold variations. Because of the line's experience, it has worked out a solid means of communication, Durgin says. The Multiflex entails various stunts, Durgin explains. For instance, he adds, the line has become particularly effective on "you-calls." He then realizes the futility of explaining the Multiflex to an outsider, and simplifies. "You make adjustments...
...globe-trotting financier. U.S. investigators have already tried to collar him: last winter in an operation of questionable legality, the FBI made plans to seize Vesco on a commercial flight between Costa Rica and the Bahamas and divert the plane to Florida. Vesco was tipped off and avoided the trap...
...elements have also taken their toll. But these earlier assaults may pale beside the damage that could come from the industrialization of Agra (pop. 1,250,000), which creates great clouds of pollutants. Worse still, the Taj is located in the valley of the Yamuna River, where atmospheric inversions trap corrosive agents for days at a time...
...flowers so much as an urban person's idea of a flower, the sort of thing you might find decorating the Citicorp lobby, or around Lincoln Center's glass and steel and concrete. The center of the stage is a huge black reflecting pool, a tar pit to trap Narcissus; around it is a path of Harvard Square brick, and around that a "lawn" of torn Hefty bags. Everything is unhealthy and artificial, beautiful in its way, but beautiful for adults only. Welcome to the East Side...