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...warmer than at ankle level. Ceiling fans can reduce heating costs sharply, from 25% to 35%, simply by swishing the over-head reservoir of warm air down to where the people are. Designs range from units with plain wooden blades to brass and even iron-scrollwork extravaganzas that recall the decor of turn-of-the-century ice cream parlors. Top-of-the-line ceiling fans are made by the Hunter Fan Co. retail...
Hidden Talks. All this was elaborate scrollwork, hiding content. The substance of the week's talks was finally revealed in a 1,500-word joint communique released just before the President left Shanghai to return to the U.S. It contained no great surprises, no great letdowns. If the communique had said any less than it did, the trip would surely have been considered a failure. It might have said a little more; it largely dwelled on the need for friendship without getting down to many specifics...
...decades, the trend in our cover design, for instance, has been to reduce the frame and allow more emphasis on the art. The ornate scrollwork, or "spinach," that once decorated our covers gave way to thin black lines within the red rectangle (which, incidentally, was preceded by border stripes in different colors; an experimental orange was something less than a success after it first appeared on St. Patrick's Day, 1926, and a compensatory green was also short-lived). The thin lines were in turn eliminated. Now we are going one step further, reducing the red border by three...
...away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went to Soprano Beverly Sills as Cleopatra and Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle as Caesar...
Sven Lukin, 31, a Latvian-born New Yorker, is another art pioneer of top. His zest for contours dates back to his student days at the University of Pennsylvania, where he watched architecture students make models of shaped canvas. Currently he is curling scrollwork-like strips of canvas out into space, as if they were peeled from flat murals...