Word: scandinavianism
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Among other things, being a Murphy Mom means having postponed childbirth until your salary has reached the upper brackets and you have sufficient disposable income to employ a full-time muralist and buy enough Scandinavian furniture to induce existential dread. But even at the upper end, where the career track is fast and the dress code is for success, there can come the nagging feeling that this might not be all there is. By then, of course, the flexibility to tolerate a big lug leaving his dirty socks on the floor and the luxury of having time to find...
...consists of three objects -- a tower, a tube and a black box. Visitors enter through a silver-and-black-striped tower. The interior walls are 29-ft.- high, 6-in.-thick ice sheets, making a perfectly Scandinavian space -- frigid, shipshape, elegant and grave, a well-engineered mini-fjord. On into the 12-ft.-wide tube, which contains the exhibition space. Outside, the tube resembles a giant clothes-dryer ventilation duct and sits in a pool atop a black plinth -- and inside the plinth, in turn, is an aquavit-and-herring restaurant...
...fabulous," said Mitchell, a professorof Scandinavian and Folklore. "Nobody in the worldcould have deserved it more...
...that same apartment are the requisite halogen lamp, Ikea or Conran's furniture, and the keys to the new Volkswagen (farfigwhat?). Less slick than Scandinavian, more comfortable than Bauhaus, Gapified design does not produce spaces to come home to, but spaces to come visit...
...single drug, derived from a Scandinavian soil sample, provided a stunning breakthrough in the effort to tame the immune system. Cyclosporine targets the killer T cells -- the cellular commandos that seek out alien tissues after other defenders have marked them for elimination. Within a few years of the drug's introduction, first-year survival rates for kidney recipients jumped from 50% to over 80%. Only a handful of drugs have had such an impact on the history of medicine...