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...back are Adela Quested, a quietly adventurous young lady from Britain and her escort, the eager-to-please Indian Dr. Aziz. Suddenly, both beast and humans are dwarfed on the screen to a mere splotch that makes its slow progress against a range of sand-colored rocks, massive and bulbous against the still blue...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Awakening in India | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

...some of the glassware designed by Aalto and his first wife Aino. The most atypical piece, the austere "Flower of Riihimaki," is the most beautiful. More often when working in glass, Aalto let his fondness for nature run riot. Vases were a specialty. The free-form circumferences, blobby and bulbous like doodles by Arp or Mird, suggest lakes or amoebas or arboreal cross sections. Even the casting process | was ripped from nature. On display at the MOMA show is a wooden mold used to make Aalto's 1936 Savoy vase: the length of dugout tree trunk is equipment that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Still Fresh after 50 Years | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...placid farming town 25 miles west of Madison looked like the aftermath of a prolonged military bombardment: the bank was split open, the fire station was smashed, 120 homes were ruined, the Lutheran church was leveled, yet its bell tower still stood grandly over the rubble as did the bulbous water tower emblazoned with the name Barneveld. Said Wisconsin Governor Anthony Earl: "It's the worst disaster I've ever seen. There are many, many people who are going to need long-term help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wiped Right Off the Map | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...highlight of the rites was the unveiling at last of the radical keel that the Australians had kept carefully shrouded from view since their arrival in Newport last spring. Lexcen's design did not, as many pundits had said, sport a bulbous nose or a double trim tab. Its magic lay in the two one-ton deltoid wings drooping from the bottom of what, in effect, is a normal keel turned upside down; its trim tab is very narrow, however, with a strip of plastic fairing to make it even more effective. As Australia II had amply demonstrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Cup Runneth Under | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

Turner's harp is composed of 59 ordinary goblets filled with water. They range in size from bulbous brandy snifters to delicate cordial glasses. He creates sound by rubbing his wet fingers around their rims to create a vibration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playing A Dishwasher Full of Sound | 9/20/1983 | See Source »

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