Word: foams
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...biggest problem with sanitizing a structure like the Hart Building is that it's so enormous: nine stories tall and 10 million cu. ft. in volume, with a 100-ft. atrium at its center. Perhaps the most direct way to clean the place is with Sandia foam, a shaving cream-like decontaminant that works by oxidizing and destroying the anthrax spore's outer shell. But it's not clear how you would apply the killer suds to a structure as complex as the Hart, or how you would do it without gunking up computers and other equipment...
...moniker Preston School of Industry. Preston’s debut album, All This Sounds Gas, is an album of shameless, shambolic and possibly pointless waster-rock, it is also a wonderfully pretentionless record of a band diving head-first into their record collection like one of those big foam-rubber pits and throwing stuff around to their hearts’ content. It is hard to imagine that the School take their music half as seriously as many of their Pavement-mourning listeners will. Others, however, can simply enjoy the infectious irreverence...
Happily, the audience was quite willing to partake in the outrageous action, doing an impromptu conga and even fencing with foam noodles...
...evening progressed, the cast went from merely wiping paint on dancers, to squirting them with the stuff, to instigating fights with foam noodles. And while some may prefer more recognizable tunes (á là the Leverett 80s dance), Boch has done Harvard a service by showcasing alternative theater uses for the dramatic community and simultaneously welcoming the Class of ’05 with an example of the kind of fun creative people can have before they...
...Among the better-known of Fritz Hansen's designers was Arne Jacobsen. While building the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen in 1956, he had a hard time finding suitable furniture for the project. So he designed the Egg and Swan chairs. Both use artificial foam for the interior and, most dramatically, neither chair has a single straight line. More than 40 years old, the chairs are so outlandish that they still find their way into rock videos and onto fashion magazine covers. Jacobsen, who died in 1971, also designed his own cafeteria-style chair, called the Series 7, which...