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...before I knew it, they were back inside that darned thing and gone. By the end of the week, half the airforce was flying overhead with the helicopters and the gun boats. I haven't caught a thing since. There's probably not a fish between here and Finland...
This "winter design" gives the domestic furnishings of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland a common quality. It is a painstaking, brooding, almost mystical devotion to perfection in craftsmanship and thoughtfulness in art. The effort is focused on the home because for many snowed-in months there is no other place to focus on. Says Cooper-Hewitt Curator of Decorative Arts David Revere McFadden, who organized the show: "Whether they are made by hand or machine, Scandinavia's virtuoso designs are both art and craft. Distinction between the two would merely spoil our joy of appreciating them...
...marvelous "mushroom" vases of Finland's Tapio Wirkkala (1946-47) are another example of this. Wirkkala's artistic craft ennobles ordinary glass. It turns an industrial material into a living one. The same is true of Denmark's Finn Juhl's famous armchair of 1945 and, for that matter, all Danish-modern wood furniture. The sensuous, sculptural shapes seem to flow into one organic unit...
...addition, the list reportedly includes a distinguished professor emeritus at the Medical School. Speculation on this recipient's identity has centered on Maxwell Finland 22, a retired epidemiologist...
...CHARACTER in a George Higgins novel ever knowingly purchased a product made in Finland, ate a spinach salad, contributed to Common Cause or crossed his 7s. Higgins people are tough, and spend their time doing one of two things--being tough or (more often) talking about being tough...