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...Equa shell is continuous, but a graceful H-shaped slice is carved out of the lower back so that it becomes virtually animate, bending like two independent pieces. "One day I took an X-Acto knife on one of our little models," Stumpf recalls, "and I just cut that slip in there. I knew right away it would work." Flex and absolute structural integrity without gimmicks: the chair is its material and structure. In addition, the designers engineered a novel tilt mechanism. Because the pivot is forward, at a point behind the knees, leaning backward in an Equa does...
...contortions were prompted by the fact that on May 20 a new Trident submarine is due to slip into the sea off Connecticut. Its 24 ballistic missiles would put the U.S. over the SALT II ceiling. Although Reagan once called that treaty "fatally flawed," he again decided to preserve the informal agreement by both superpowers to abide by its provisions; he ordered that two older Poseidon subs be scrapped. SALT's critics, most notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urged that the old subs be mothballed and kept ready as a protest against alleged Soviet breaches. But violating SALT II would...
...through thin washes of pigment. One has to work from light to dark, not (as with oils) from dark to light. It is hospitable to accident (Homer's seas, skies and Adirondack hills are full of chance blots and free mergings of color) but disaster-prone as well. One slip, and the veil of atmosphere turns into a mud puddle, a garish swamp. The stuff favors broad effects; nothing proclaims the amateur more clearly than niggling and overcorrection. It can be violated (Homer sometimes did his highlights by tearing strips of paper away to show white below), but it also...
...distance from the field, two mountains rise into a white mist pulled across them by a wind like the hem of a woman's slip. Rain-shagged sheep, mops with four legs, pursue their ridiculous business of all-day eating. On this field over a thousand years ago, an assembly of all Iceland sat down to keep the peace. The obvious parallel pops up: many chieftains then, two chieftains now, striving for balance and order so the world does not run to ruin. It is a tradition in Iceland, this striving for equilibrium. The sagas, crazy as they got, almost...
...after a while the mask of courtesy began to slip a bit. On Saturday the Soviets wheeled out their designated American hit man, Georgi Arbatov, who asserted that the summit "is not a symptom of improved relations but a test for worsening relations." Arbatov went from cynical to surly at a press conference when a man attempting to ask a question identified himself as a representative of the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Stockholm. "No," Arbatov snapped, "it is the Committee for anti-Soviet Jewry...