Word: mats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kyotera's leading businessmen are dead. The streets are filling with homeless orphans, the offspring of AIDS victims in outlying areas. Josephine, racked by fevers, chronic diarrhea, throat lesions and a painful itching rash that covers her chest and arms, now passes her days sitting listlessly on a straw mat outside her house, waiting...
Floppy disks for personal computers generally come in bare-bones cardboard cases; the imagination all goes into the programming. For the Ability software package, though, Toronto's Spencer/Francey Group has designed a clever casing in black mat plastic that alludes to the injection-molding process itself: the shapes of computer keys and a disk stand in relief, as if actually slipped into the mold. Going to a decorative extreme, Sava Cvek Associates has designed a lamp that seems more like a sculpture than a functional object. Dauntingly tall (6 ft. 4 in.), their light is a lush, glowing monolith...
...forces generating the mergers is the breakdown of barriers to interstate banking. Today, 36 states and the District of Columbia permit out-of-state financial institutions to buy a local bank, at least under some conditions, up from four states just four years ago. Texas put out the welcome mat last September. Its legislators hope that out-of-state institutions will have the resources to help Texas banks overcome the depression in the region's oil and real estate industries...
...stairs made out of steel pipes, only a few restaurant-style chairs. "The house is a machine for living in," said Le Corbusier. This concept became very fashionable, but Rybczynski finds it hopelessly contradictory: "Marble kitchen counters and bamboo window shades . . . a Matisse on the wall and a sleeping mat on the floor...
...returns home and, finding no one about, simply sits down to watch a football game on TV. Here and elsewhere, he is like an inconveniently placed piece of furniture. Yet he is not without a saving gracelessness. Drunk at a dinner party, he puts his head on his place mat and groans, "This is so boring...