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Ziba Design's heaters are not in production yet, but the prototypes have won a prize from the Industrial Designers Society of America. While they celebrate simplicity (each contains a single screw, and the controls are self- explanatory), they avoid both stripped-down K Mart grimness and unsmiling Germanic pretension. Just as moderne objects in the '30s suggested speed, the curves of these heaters evoke waves of warmth: form (metaphorically) follows function...
Ziba Design's heaters are not in production yet, but the prototypes have won a prize from the Industrial Designers Society of America. While they celebrate simplicity (each contains a single screw, and the controls are self- explanatory), they avoid both stripped-down K Mart grimness and unsmiling Germanic pretension. Just as moderne objects in the '30s suggested speed, the curves of these heaters evoke waves of warmth: form (metaphorically) follows function...
Consider the screwdriver. Simple. Utilitarian. And hopelessly out of date. Few people who have put together a cabinet with a cordless screw turner will ever happily go back to driving Phillips-heads by hand. The most advanced power screwdrivers even come with built-in computer systems that sense when a screw is running into resistance and turn up the torque accordingly...
...turned around by the narcissist to say, "Look how important I am that all these people care about my life." A narcissist in Gutfreund's position might say, "Look at my impact on the financial world. My screw-up has instituted a wave of reform." This is why Levine is bouncing back, consulting, giving lectures at business schools. He's had the audacity to stand in front of students and talk ethics. You or I might have been shamed into suicide. I mean, I would die if, like Levine, I was arrested and my parents saw me dragged to jail...
...moving the focus of the play to gender. No weapons literally appear on stage...I am interpreting Lysistrata as a romantic comedy, like 30s and 40s screw ball sex comedies, with banter, husbands and wives...