Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edges, a playful, functional line of furniture. The structural principle was ingeniously low tech: cardboard was glued and sandwiched together, each layer of corrugations at right angles to the layer above and below. The furniture was cheap ($37 for a chair) and chic. But Gehry decided he could not stomach becoming known as a designer of ubiquitous designer furniture. Less than three months after it was introduced, he withdrew Easy Edges from the market. "I was trying to make the Volkswagen," he says today. "I did, and it worked, and I got carried into a vortex, and I quit...
...caffeine might cause some adverse effects such as stomach upset, if it is consumed in large quantities," says Dr. Peter Zuromskis '66, associate physician to University Health Services (UHS). The Medical School instructor adds that people have individual tolerance levels to caffeine...
...packaged-food companies went on a buying binge, gobbling up disparate lines of business that ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that...
...achieved? "There's no reason anybody can't have peace, no reason an agreement can't be reached on anything," Bradley offered. Sivolap agreed. Can the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. work together to feed the world's hungry? "We could have so much more peace with a full stomach than a hungry one. We have hungry people in this nation, and we could feed them," Bradley said, furrowing his brow in a look of disgust. "But there is politics, and corruption." Afterward, three game Soviets took turns roaring down a gravel road on a Honda three-wheeler. When the last...
...Burbank lot with Warner contract players, and by that time had already been tipped as a 'sleeper' . . . I had not expected to enjoy myself --Background to Danger with George Raft had made me very queasy--but I had not expected a screen Dimitrios to give me stomach cramps. They were quite severe." At the close, he imagines an ideal novelist-turned-screenwriter. After he completes his assignment, says Ambler, he has a sense "of anti- climax, a feeling of irritation because his work must now be handed over to others." For him "there is hope. It will not be long...