Word: layered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gehry became briefly famous and nearly rich for inventing Easy Edges, a playful, functional line of furniture. The structural principle was ingeniously low tech: cardboard was glued and sandwiched together, each layer of corrugations at right angles to the layer above and below. The furniture was cheap ($37 for a chair) and chic. But Gehry decided he could not stomach becoming known as a designer of ubiquitous designer furniture. Less than three months after it was introduced, he withdrew Easy Edges from the market. "I was trying to make the Volkswagen," he says today. "I did, and it worked...
...generations later, the longings have grown more aggravated and the real horrors have metastasized. Terrorism and the Bomb, the breakdown of the ozone layer and the rise of crime -- almost any news item will serve to drive readers to distraction. Manhattan Psychiatrist Robert E. Gould finds that horror "is extremely distracting. That is one of the main purposes of its popularity. In difficult times, in the world outside and your own world, you reach out far from yourself. Also, you can control that horror. You can stop reading any time you want." His colleague Dr. Herbert Peyser agrees. In horror...
...indeed dense: the stumps are only about ten paces apart, and some are as much as six feet across. "Along the edge of the hill and up on the crest," he says, "are dozens, maybe hundreds of stumps." Basinger also made "an incredible find" -- up to 19 distinct layers of stumps. "Each layer is a forest that developed, lived for many centuries and was overtaken by floods of sediments that killed the roots," he says. "They must have been killed off relatively quickly for the roots not to decay, and buried deeply enough to exclude oxygen but not so deeply...
...divinity school to support the young man's belief that the existence of God can be scientifically proved by processing the accumulating mountain of data about the universe. "God is breaking through," he announces. "They've been scraping away at physical reality all these centuries, and now the layer of the little left we don't understand is so fine God's face is staring right out at us." Crunch enough numbers through the right program, the visitor promises, and the purposeful hand of the Creator will emerge for all to see. Roger's response is not encouraging: "I must...
...food was prepared by friends and neighbors and certified good enough to compete with any catered affair. Even the cake was made locally, although it was the kind of extravaganza that looks like an honors project at a baking school: three small cakes surrounded a central four-layer job, with stairways from level to level. "There were little models of people going up to the fountain," Delinda recalls. "It was beautiful...