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Advances are also coming from noncorporate R. and D.: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently demonstrated an experimental heat-storing ceiling tile made of concrete with a core of heat-retentive salts, which is capable of providing 75% to 80% of a house's heat. In Britain, Patscenter International, a well-respected research group, has discovered a still secret way of making photovoltaic panels at a fraction of the current price; panels to power a small family house, it says, would cost about...
...lawyers. New regulations are drafted, then sent to a boss who approves them. The regulations are printed; sent to the field; and one morning a federal authority is insisting-to take actual cases-that ice cannot be added to drinking water, chickens cannot be processed in rooms with tile floors, fire extinguishers are to be lowered 6 in., and cowboys must work within 5 min. ride of a toilet. The reasons for, and meanings of, the regulations have been lost somewhere between Washington and Pocatello...
...knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene is an obsessive theme of constructivism: a design like J J Pieter Oud's Cafe Restaurant De Unie, 1925, is not to be imagined with a scintilla of city grime on it. Steel, chrome, tile, gloss paint were the rudiments of utopia, but, above all, glass. Paeans were written to the constructivist cathedral, the transparent tower. "Life is a burden without a glass palace," rhapsodized the poet and designer Paul Scheerbart...
Valentino. Ken Russell's latest turkey can be credited for furnishing an appealing showcase for Rudolf Nureyev's breathtaking prowess on an empty dance floor, but compliments come to an abrupt halt there. We see all the glamor and fame that filled the tile character's moment in the spotlight, but Nureyev's Valentino remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in "Valentino," evoking some...
...across a blue ground, and the irregular polygonal canvases from 1976 with rays and cuts of color, cannot even do that. One realizes, descending the ramp of the Guggenheim, that Noland is hardly a giant of cultural history. He is simply an ornamental artist and-compared with the Arab tile makers, or the French metalworkers of 1900-a limited and pedantic one. There is little resonance in his paintings. They reliably engage the eye without shifting the mind's gears. Their content of felt experience, beyond the sensation of color itself, is so slight that it hardly exists...