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...depending on the light. In his recently opened North Jutland Museum of the Arts in Aalborg, Denmark, Aalto confronted the most difficult challenge in museum design: natural lighting. Most architects avoid the issue by putting up blank walls of solid masonry or tinted glass. But Aalto allows sunlight to pour through high windows, then tames it by bouncing it off curved structural beams so that the light diffuses evenly over the interior walls. The Aalborg design reflects one of Aalto's guiding convictions: man must always stay in contact with nature...
Just a sip out of the Jack Daniels bottle in which Peg kept his hot as ice and clear as crystal brew was enough to feel a hell of a jolt, but Daniel had to go and pour the whole thing into his beer and Gay came back and, taking off her denims, climbed into the tub and suddenly it was right. Shooting stars peeled off the cob of the Milky Way, iridescent silk whipped off the rich black and yellow health of night, plunging into the darkness of the valley where a pair of headlights twined down the pass...
...most realistic approach to a solution of New York City's financial crisis [June 23] would be for the city administration to declare war on the U.S. -and lose. Washington could then pour millions of dollars into the city to reconstruct it. Vive "the mouse that roared...
Capitalism, Marx reckoned, would pour out more goods than workers could...
...cartel states, which are already contemplating another price rise, might retaliate in support of the commodity producers with a larger increase that could choke off recovery from world recession. There is also a danger that the commodity price slump and the industrial world's growing reluctance to pour money into countries where nationalization is a threat will reduce investment in raw materials production enough to leave supplies short when demand rises again, perhaps triggering a price explosion even worse than in the last boom...