Word: low-slung
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...seems odd at first, all this low-slung elegance in the middle of a desert. In fact, it was almost inevitable, as Tony Merchell, an amateur architectural historian who has been deeply involved in the town's historic-preservation movement, told me. Wealthy Eastern and Midwestern business people followed movie stars to Palm Springs in the 1940s and '50s, at just the moment when Modernism was taking hold in California...
...ways, of London's 19th century steel-and-glass Crystal Palace, the greenhouse-exhibition space that signaled the beginning of pure engineering as the new form of beauty. For his first completed work in the U.S., Calatrava provided a showstopping new addition for the Milwaukee Museum of Art. His low-slung extension is crowned by a supreme statement, the upward arc of his brise de soleil. It's a sunscreen with "wings" made of 72 steel-pipe ribs. They rise and fall from a diagonal spine like a bird on an ascending flight path. Technically, Calatrava's great wings...
...ways, of London's 19th century steel-and-glass Crystal Palace, the greenhouse-exhibition space that signaled the beginning of pure engineering as the new form of beauty. For his first completed work in the U.S., Calatrava provided a showstopping new addition for the Milwaukee Museum of Art. His low-slung extension is crowned by a supreme statement, the upward arc of his brise de soleil. It's a sunscreen with "wings" made of 72 steel-pipe ribs. They rise and fall from a diagonal spine like a bird on an ascending flight path. Technically, Calatrava's great wings...
...Colors Music of the 1986 11-song dpp compilation Oh! Formosa packages Chen the sex symbol rather than Chen the A-student. The handsome, well-coiffed A Bian?make that Ahhhhh!-Bian?is posed on the cover, emanating halos of mojo, windbreaker coolly unzipped, hands hitched smugly in his low-slung slacks. As he warbles Lover's Pillow in his adenoidal tenor to Casio keyboard accompaniment, it all begins to make sense. The Taiwanese people must have known that inside the mild-mannered technocrat was a musky he-man who?and please, don't make him do it?could arouse...
Jenn’s cell phone is bright red. She favors tight green tops, turquoise halters, low-slung Deisel jeans and tan leather coats with snaps. If Jenn’s writing could be associated, somehow, with her clothing, every one of her stories would be a Moschino haute couture limited edition strapless dress. “My sister and I have big butt problems,” she says after realizing that her black, lacy thong was emerging from inside her trousers. And Jenn’s butt is famous. She has a gorgeous, luscious rear that attracts...