Word: discomfort
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...Stijl design. Its aesthetic was seamless, from painting to furniture to architecture, where it made few concessions to the flabby and imperfect human body. Gerrit Rietveld's penitential chairs, rigidly geometric and painted in their bright, winking primaries, go far beyond the ordinary level of Bauhaus discomfort as practiced in the '20s. Yet one cannot imagine Rietveld's masterpiece, the tiny Schroder house in Utrecht, being furnished with anything else. Such interiors were not open to redecoration: the pattern is absolute, the space a sermon. One would need to be the truest of believers to live...
Consider Glen Sweeting, a curator in the Air and Space Museum who discovered during the inventory that he has 117 air-sickness bags. "I call them motion-discomfort containers-that sounds better than barf bags," he says. "I haven't found any tasteful-no pun intended-way of exhibiting them, but I still have them. They don't take up much room, and they're a little page in aviation history." Now, to a layman, 117 bags might seem enough. But Sweeting confides that he has just struck a deal to procure 300 more bags from...
Physics 112 professor R. Victor Jones, McKay Professor of Applied Physics, said he believed that the cold would not hurt the students' performances on his exam, but might possibly have the opposite effect because "discomfort sometimes helps you get through the thing faster...
...misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...
...business to the Cubans, East Germans and Czechs. (The U.S., to its occasional discomfort, has cornered the market on the Right, and it has justified doing so largely on anti-Soviet grounds...