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...face has not changed, but how we adorn it has. Yes, eyeglasses are utilitarian, but frames follow fashion as much as function. "They can reveal a lot about the times," says Robert Marc, an upscale New York City eyewear designer and retailer. The shape of the decade is marked by the shape of the lenses. Put your glasses on and play the Frame Game: guess who was wearing what when...
...Possibility: early 1960s Technology reduces distortion and weight, and form follows function...
...especially considering that it was built by the team behind AutoCAD, a program that takes years to master), the software lets users dream-design a kitchen by clicking through thousands of cabinets, wallpapers and appliances and then morphing the results onto photo-realistic 3-D settings. (A special accounting function tracks prices and then offers a quick guesstimate of project costs.) The George Lucas-meets-Martha Stewart results promise to save even the most taste-free decorators from a very Brady kitchen...
...yellow spread out before us. The blinds were open, and this being a typical Seattle day, the sunlight falling on the table was intermittent, and the swatches kept changing in intensity. Color is a moving target under the best of circumstances, so how, I wondered, could these color mavens function in such variable conditions? How could they ever hope to pinpoint the hues my wife or I would choose (by dint of inexorable social forces) when it came time to rethink our apartment for the 21st century? I had to keep reminding myself: These people are trained professionals...
...ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. That established my independence and taught me I didn't need to rebel anymore." By 10th grade he was teaching computers and writing a program that handled class scheduling, which had a secret function that placed him in classes with the right girls...