A generation of designers working in architecture, advertising, packaging, interior design, graphic and scenic design came to believe that commonplace goods and appliances, from automobiles to pencil sharpeners, could benefit from contemporary veneers — and some serious retooling.
By averting its eyes to both the dot-com and housing bubbles, the Fed lulled even professional investors into believing that commonplace risks could be eliminated through "new era" designs.
'When you see TV footage of the 1960s or early 70s, going to a meeting of a coven was almost like going to a book club or a knitting class because it was that commonplace," suggests Lee Dorrian.
But since SSDs aren't that commonplace yet, I'm assuming it doesn't come that cheap.
That commonplace is wrong.
That commonplace gadget you are advised to turn off when the lights in the theater go down, or when the plane takes off, becomes a mysteriously powerful totem of transformation in "Dead Man's Cell Phone," the beguiling new comedy by Sarah Ruhl that opened on Tuesday night at Playwrights Horizons.
