Word: chromed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It’s got a sleek new paint job, chrome trim, and a flaming grille. But rather than powering up a car, this sweet machine revs up Harvard’s students. This fall, the Eliot Grille, a student-run snack bar in Eliot House, is getting a neat new facelift. Proposed changes would transform its previous, drab decor into something that resembles a ’50s diner. Nondescript walls will now be washed in bright red and blue. And the House is buying ’50s-style furniture to complement the new paint job. This furniture...
...LASER CUT Furniture or sculpture? The answer was both for the vanguard brother-sister team of Thien and My Ta Trung at Canadian design studio Periphere when they created the all-steel, rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated...
...window provides minimal views. The cockpit feels sports-car Spartan; our test car featured a two-tone "sand-and-steel, " design scheme, with a five-speed manual shifter (don't ask for an automatic, Pontiac isn't making one). Those bezels around the gauges? They have the glint of chrome but turn out to be plastic. Then there's the question, which may arise on a weekend jaunt, of how to transport a couple grocery bags with the top down. Stowing the soft top is a snap: just press a button, unlatch a hook and it folds into the trunk...
...Xbox. (One of the reasons the first one tanked in Japan is that Japanese consumers, having smaller apartments, are very space conscious.) It's also a little feminine--there's a hint of an hourglass figure. There are very few cables because the controllers are wireless. It has chrome accents, but it's mostly a creamy, calming off-white that the color geniuses call chill. And if you don't like chill, it has a snap-off faceplate, so you can customize...
...chrome surface, the movie seems to have all the right parts: a top-dollar cast, writing crew, and animation budget. But it regrettably squanders all of it. Its few attempts at trite comedy give a well-assembled cast no direction or boost of energy. That the writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (responsible for A League of Their Own and Parenthood) couldn’t give good material to Robin Williams and Mel Brooks doesn’t bode well...