Word: stainlessness
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...take at least $1,300 an acre to plant the good vines-though the return can be bountiful: around 3,000 bottles. The further cost of fertilizing, weeding, spraying, pruning, picking, vinification and bottling makes wine a costly enterprise. Then add the investment in sophisticated equipment: a single stainless-steel 1,000-gal. vat can soak the vintner for some...
...subversion of that relationship by the jargon of today") are "beyond considerations of who can find what kind of happiness when..." His approach is highly intellectualized rather than that of a "How-to" type guide. It is rarely pedantic, though, barbed as it is by a wit akin to stainless steel wire, brilliant and deadly. His delineation of the organizations and charlatans that have cashed in on a society's introspection is cruelly exact...
...sail design. Says Tristan Jones, a small, bearded Welsh sailor who has circumnavigated the globe three times, crossed the Atlantic 18 times under sail, nine times alone: "The boats I sail wouldn't have existed before now. They are fitted with the best technology of our time, from stainless steel to freeze-dried food...
Stately Manor. The Mellon collection, which opens to the public this week, is housed in the last building designed by Architect Louis Kahn. It is a triumph. At the heart of the stainless-steel and glass structure lie two inner courtyards, paneled in striking blond oak and covered by plexidome skylights. The galleries are built around the courts, with internal windows that open onto them. Sunlight streams in everywhere. The details are starkly modern: exposed heating ducts, a huge, free-standing circular stairway. Yet the effect, thanks to Kahn's classical symmetry, is of a stately, updated manor house...
Showing slides of her recent works, Pepper stressed her desire to make them interact with people. She said she tries to "involve men and women with each other and with their environment." Many of her stainless steel sculptures reflect the sky and land, illustrating her attempt to "complete the sculpture with the environment," she said...