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...court's most startling innovation, ending a 182-year tradition, is the transformation of the 30-ft.-long bench behind which the Justices sit. As soon as the Justices recessed three weeks ago, workmen started sawing up the noble slab of marble and Honduran mahogany ("I never saw wood so tough to cut," one workman complained...
...first thing I noticed there was a lucite bubble. It sits in front of the entrance amidst a concrete slab, and stares blindly--a blank white eye--out at Mass. Ave, traffic. I asked what it was there for. A man next to the door said he wasn't sure--just a mixture of art and architecture, he said...
...J.P.L. crowd," he says, "is looser, more relaxed, without those worries of having a man up there. Also there is more of a sense of true exploration, more a feeling of touching the 2001 slab. Because of the scarcity of facts about Mars, there is more scientific speculation, a broader spectrum of scenarios upon which hinge some mighty scientific reputations...
...chrome America. Oblique lines on a parking lot lead us to a lone horse-rider on blacktop; an arrow directs us past a rooster on a traffic island. Emphasizing design and pure form, Uzzle illustrates an econoline van making it a highly disciplined composition--circular wheels, white slab body that flows into each white side of the frame, and black geometric solids surround the white...
...cold as a slab...