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...shape more than a stage, something with plenty of movement yet undefined. I wanted it to be out into the audience; when you have a proscenium at the end of a room, you have people looking at the show; you forget they're there." The platforms rest on steel pipe legs, specially cut and threaded because the usual machinery couldn't handle such short legs. Guy proudly shows off his banged-up finger, still recovering from his carpentry. "And I have a very low tolerance for pain...
...affairs are supposed to dominate an annual meeting soon found out differently. Land had decided to use this meeting to stage the long-awaited debut of his new, pocket-sized camera. Unfolding a leather-covered box to form a vaguely triangular Polaroid camera. Land focused on his oversized meerschaum pipe and pushed the shutter button five times in quick succession. About a second after each touch, a 3-in. by 3-in. blank plastic square shot out. Slowly and almost magically, like invisible ink being activated, they turned into color prints...
...suburb on the hill." Then Michael went the rest of the way. He is a sober-profiled Catholic professor of philosophy and religion, currently at the State University of New York. But with a book in one hand (perhaps even his own A Theology for Radical Politics) and a pipe in the other, Novak could pass as a WASP to the Eastern Establishment born...
...employee actively opposes corporate policy, how should a company react? So far, most such workers have been fired, demoted or forced to resign. George Geary, a U.S. Steel Co. sales executive in Houston, went over his superiors' heads to object to company officers about safety defects in pipe tubing that the firm was preparing to market. The officers investigated and withdrew the piping, but Geary was fired...
...Soviet Union. It seems strange to a visitor that the one vice that thrives in a spartan socialist land devoted to physical fitness is addiction to tobacco. Chain-smoking cigarettes seems to be one of the few licit tokens of individual prosperity in China. Stores feature Panda pipe tobacco and three kinds of cigars; the Great Wall brand is favored by Chairman...