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...citizens of Soap Lake, Wash. have found the solution to their economic woes: a Giant Lava Lamp. The tiny rural town hopes the lamp will become a major tourist attraction, with neon psychedelic blobs of color undulating inside the 60-by-18-foot structure (about the height of Widener Library) day and night. The Soap Lake City Council fully supports the plan: “Wouldn’t you stop to see a lava lamp?” Councilor Leslie Slough asked the Boston Globe. “A great...
Harvard’s second goal came just two minutes into the second period on a powerplay opportunity. Botterill left the puck just outside the slot for junior winger Lauren McAuliffe, who slapped it by Dreyer to light the lamp...
...parade felt no such compulsion, though. They did not guard their cardboard boats against the incipient wet; they did not scaffold their trash-bag puppets against the breeze. You might call this lack of prudence foolhardy, but you did not see the joy in the children’s lamp-lit faces on New Year’s Eve. Their cardboard might sag, their flowered sails might collapse, but for the ten minutes it took them to make two laps of the main street, their hope was infectious...
...dead of night, two men, one of them masked, meet secretly in an empty building on a deserted alley in the Palestinian refugee camp near the West Bank town of Jenin. In the light of a guttering oil lamp, they sit and begin to talk. The masked man is a would-be suicide bomber, but the purpose of this surreptitious meeting is not to plan an attack on the Israeli forces patrolling the camp; he's there to tell the story of his life. On five consecutive nights last March, a German-born Palestinian journalist and documentary filmmaker named Raid...
DIED. ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI, 84, whimsical patriarch of modern Italian design whose playful, highly stylized lamps, vacuum cleaners, ashtrays and other domestic objects helped establish Italy's postwar reputation as a design innovator; in Milan. Castiglioni created some 200 items, including the Arco lamp (shown), an arching alternative to a ceiling light, and the Mezzadro, a tractor seat stool...