Word: curvilinear
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...Bauhaus buildings in Tel Aviv - all 4,000 of them - are easy to spot. Built from the 1930s to the 1950s, they are curvilinear and sleek like the first-class decks of ocean liners. It's as if a fleet of dazzling white ships had sailed in from the Mediterranean and kept right on going before dropping anchor along Tel Aviv's leafy boulevards...
Baby boutiques and department stores are featuring nursery lines with curvilinear high chairs, sleek wooden rockers and oval-shaped cribs that would make modernist masters Charles and Ray Eames feel at home. "It used to be unheard of to have anything but a pink or blue nursery," says Trish Holbrook-Meyler, owner of Modern Nursery, an online boutique whose sales have risen 84% over the past year. "But today's generation of parents--who tend to be older and more used to their existing décor--are opting for sleeker lines that go with the rest of their furniture...
...money. "There is a U-shaped distribution in which the oldest and youngest get the most," says Sulloway. That may take an emotional toll. Sulloway cites other studies in which the self-esteem of first-, middle- and last-borns is plotted on a graph and follows the same curvilinear trajectory...