The Michigan Daily-Sunday, Nove Page 2-Sunday, November 11, 1979-The Michigan Daily HARD NOX Art BY TERR YLaBAN WAM UPf S NExQrI1r 1o11 ov,? r( T Ir ST*T A t4EW .F WEI! S wAMA~iEG P. " *N ' ' -Ir S A KcxA.I.'r . yEYC~ -- - -'.7 NO!, u ______________________________________ ______________________________________U- ____________________________________ -IF l jz wN'TDol1T }(Ar~. G T 2 OUT - it. iT IW0tNf4Y #c~NJ!NG - GcrS A 1- TILE tie - PJ~DFFICO--T 6L"Yik.. - -. d .'z~ pl = r- AL .m" U Y-. Sundau A CR OSTIC PUZZLE BY STEPHEN J. POZSGA I Copyright 1979 INSTRUCTIONS Guess the words defined at the left and write them in over their numbered dashes. Then, transfer each letter to the cor- responding numbered square in the grid above. The letters printed in the upper-right-hand corners of the squares indi- cate from what clue-word a particular square's letter comes from. The grid, when filled in, should read as a quotation from a published work. The darkened squares are the spaces between words. Some words may carry over to the next line. Meanwhile, the first letter of each guessed word at the left, reading down, forms an acrostic, giving the author's name an the title of the work from which the quote is extracted. As words and phrases begin to form in the grid, you can work back and forth from clues to grid until the puzzle is complete. Answer to Last Week's Puzzle Because fraud is the foundation of the auto- mobile industry in North America, consumers are victimized indiscrimi- nately. Jusges too fre- quently find themselves ; the target of incomplete mechanics or manufac- turing defects. Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid Malls. The next best thing to Heaven unit structures spread the mall the new ganglia jpllyroll unrolled "Haiku: 23," from Shopping Centers: I have been in them, by R.J. Smith. ERY MUCH a product of the typical suburban satellite that flags the trembling carcass of De rit,I havIspent a large sum of the last 10 years of so in shopping cen- ters-scores of 'em. Malls are an in- credibly consistent element in the life of today's suburban kid. It's not even as if one went to a mall to do anything as useless as shop, dine, or to enjoy any of the countless goods and services this modern-day agora provides. Those who are really into malls have almost no choice in the matter. They go to malls because this voice whispers inside them that they must, the way Roy Neary got pulled like a yo-yo toward Devil's Tower. "Whassamatter, don't you think it's time to put down the Testor's model glue and go hang out?," says the trilling in their brain, and they head to their local E~vergreen Plaza, or Colonial Village, or Sun Valley, or Bourgeoise Place, or Pristine Paranoid Fortress-in-the-Hills, or whatever they call their own covered cornocopea of consumptives, their shrine of Hot Sams pretzels and B. Dalton books, their enclosed all-giving Disneyland fountainhead, the way ants instinctively gather around morsels dropped into the dirt. Did you know George Wallace got it in a mall? Did you know about the various auto theft circuits, pickpockets, molesters, and drunks who also like to hang out at malls? Malls have arson, rapes, kidnappings; they have their own modest aggregate of undesirables and thrive on the monied minions. None of that stuff, though, worries me. Besides the fact that crime is not as bad in malls as it is on the streets, the fact is that it is incredibly different. And it's that promise of an entirely fresh social set-up that is the prime attraction of the shopping center. Consider some statistics: A Temple University study Arts page co-editor R. J. Smith used to be an art history major. He now spends his time hqnging out at. Orange Julius._ 'VAt By R.J. Smith .i shows that malls are the most popular gathering spot for teenagers; research done in Washington, D.C., declares that more couples meet in malls than in bars; a U.S. News and World Report survey states that outside the home and place of work, people spend most of their time in malls. Need I say more? There are nearly 20,000 shopping plazas in the country today, and besides meaning a shitload of kitschy dog shows, Fanny Farmer candies and free balloons for the kids, it means a whole lot of people, at a speeding pace mat- ched only by that of their blood pressure, are keying into the sense- shredding values vivisection of the shopping center. Sometimes I think I was born in a mall, nurtured in the bosom of Thom McCans and Hickory Farms. No matter how different the particulars of malls are, there is always that feeling that they are reaching out to you. When I walk through a mall nowadays, I get this wobbly sort of happiness down deep. I feel the balm that only that can- ned music and bright colored flourescent lights can provide. Shop- ping centers offer peace and happiness and goodness (when was the last time you saw a pool hall, bar, or "adult en- tertainment" center in your neigh- borhood's indoors shop-a-go-go??). And they are getting closer to working out Le Corbusier's equation for achieving the ultimate example of the architec- tural work as a "machine for living." (Consider, if you would, University Towne Center in San Diego, which, besides scads of shops, has an ice- skating rink, pre-school and day-care center, folk art museum, discotheque, community meeting room, and class- rooms for university extension ser- vices. Adjacent to the mammoth struc- ture is a 185-unit housing complex.) While scientists and scholars fret over the implications of life created in the laboratory, they are missing out on the ways life is being produced and shaped so thoroughly by the shopping mall. But for what it's worth, I wouldn't worr too much about Bria oo- a yef. We have to be careful about the ways shopping plazas gnarl holes out of our landscapes and put humongous blank boxes on top of them, and we shouldn't tolerate the ways they bleed our cities by drawing away shoppers. And there are countless issues-everything from crassness and garishness to the economics of malls -which can always be hashed over on some rainy day. That said, however, it should be added that there is something splendid about the totality of the mall's planned-out environment, something tender and ecstatic in its fulfillingness. Today's malls serve needs once attended to by institutions like "religion" and "art;" unless we redefine such terms to somehow ac- commodate things such as shopping malls, we might as well pitch them out in the fashion that a sailor scoops out buckets of water from his sinking ship. "Take gigantic surfaces, conceived as infinite, cloak them in color and shift tlem menacingly.. . Make lines fight together and caress one another in generous tenderness . . . Then take wheels and axles, hurl them up and make them sing (mighty erections of aquatic giants). Axles dance mid-wheel, roll globes barrels. . . Take a dentist's* drill, a meat grinder, a car-truck scraper, take buses and pleasure cars, bicycles, tandems, and their tires ... Take petticoats and other kindred ar- ticles, shoes and false hair, also ice skates and throw them into place where they belong, and always at the right time ... Even people can be used ..'." F THAT sounds like a plausible idea of what a shopping center is all about, it should: It's Dada artist Kurt Schwitter's description of what the total work of art would be like. Schwitters had a vision of an all- encompassing, mixed media of art form he called merz. To Schwitters, merz was an approach to life which saw every material in existence, every object imaginable, as stuff to be freely used for artistic expression. 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