Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They run the risk of being sneered at as bubbleheads, but hay fever sufferers can find relief from runny noses, swollen eyes and itchy throats by donning a Martianesque headpiece called the Hincherton Hayfever Helmet. It consists of a clear plastic dome, enclosing the head, into which filtered, pollen-free air is wafted at low pressure. The battery-powered fan, electrostatically charged filter and helmet weigh about 4 Ibs. and are attached to the body by a harness or belt. The inventor, British Architect Richard Hinchliffe, 45, himself a longtime hay fever sufferer, claims that wearing the helmet...
...irregular patches and ribbons of stained canvas, sewn together with an offhand and improvisatory air, misled some critics into thinking of him as a kind of craftsy '60s bricoleur fiddling with mandalas by the seaside. (The sight of Shields, 6 ft. 4 in., with his shaven bronze dome of a head, nautical beard and Queequeg-like mien, daintily stitching in a studio littered with harpoons and coot decoys, is one of the more striking images of role reversal the art world affords.) In fact, his imagination goes far beyond that: it has a sparkling, lyric quality, which comes...
...comfortably on the British Isles." He once declared that "man has the capability through proper planning and use of natural resources to forever feed himself and house himself and live in workless leisure." He dreamed of mile-high floating cities and of a Manhattan enshrouded in a gargantuan plastic dome. But he was more than just a dreamer. When he died of a heart attack last week at 87, while visiting his wife at a Los Angeles hospital, "Bucky" Fuller left behind him, in the real world, thousands of geodesic domes that are used as theaters, auditoriums and defense facilities...
...Fuller patented the geodesic dome, which used pyramid-shaped tetrahedrons to attain great strength without internal supports and to cover more space with less material than any other building ever designed. The first commercial sale was to the Ford Motor Co. Other geodesic domes housed DEW-line stations in the Arctic, a concert auditorium in Honolulu and the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal...
...atmosphere of Walt Disney's nearby Fantasyland. In the dome-shaped main hall, robots caromed around the floor. Overhead, a single-engine plane circled, dragging a sign announcing COMPAQ IS HERE. At one booth, a man dressed up like the Red Baron demonstrated a program that enables a personal computer to accept voice commands. Apple Computer rented Disneyland for an evening to entertain 12,000 of its most intimate customers, employees and friends. For the more serious, discussions were held on topics like "Surviving Success-an Industry Dilemma...