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Sometimes the best products find unexpected uses. Invented by an electronics worker who needed a better tool to pick up tiny components, the Deluxe Tweezerman is every woman's answer to precision cosmetics. Unlike most standard tweezers, which are machine filed and chrome plated and therefore cannot grip very well, this hand-filed, stainless-steel instrument works extraordinarily well for the most delicate maneuvers. Its perfectly fitting edges enable users to remove that one offending hair without pinching the skin or missing the target...
...when the postwar group of industrial designers -- men like GM's legendary Harley Earl, whose decree of "longer, lower, wider" became the maxim of the industry -- were captivating auto shows with cowls, tail fins and futuristic shapes that turned boxes on wheels into high-flying fashions of steel and chrome. But then Gale labored for almost 25 years in a company that was known mainly for a single product, the dull and dowdy economy K-cars. Although Chrysler's minivan, introduced in the mid-1980s, was a godsend to Little League teams and den mothers across America, it would...
What's next on the grownup's drawing board? Gale admits an aversion to ornamental trimmings like chrome, opera windows, whitewalls and wire wheel covers. "Personally," he says,"I'd nuke veneer interiors." But he confesses to finding some new inspiration in the pure American classics like the Cadillac touring cars of the 1930s. "I don't want my drivers to be thought of as flashy, opulent and dumb," he says, "but smart, bright and responsible." What kind of a look might that be? "What else?" says Gale, maybe seriously, and smiles. "Maybe cab-backward...
...wing also houses most of the 5,500-piece decorative-arts collection -- including jewel-encrusted gold crowns and carved ivory statuettes -- in handsome, well-lit glass display cases mounted on stone pedestals and trimmed in chrome. The cases, which are used in all the new areas, are one of the Richelieu wing's most effective unifying elements because they echo Pei's refined, understated decor...
...rapper Spice 1 bragged to TIME last week, "I'm gonna be strapped 24-7." (That's 24 hours a day, seven days a week.) "I've got an AK on the way, and that's real, you know? I've got a TEC-9. I got a little chrome .32 and a .380. I'm gonna get some more Glocks, I want some twin Glocks." Half a dozen armed friends keep Spice safe from "player-haters," who he says try to bring down successful rappers. "Six guns coming out is gonna get us out of there, wherever...