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...dialing telephones to controlling assembly lines. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, for example, United Airlines baggage handlers call out the names of airports as they toss suitcases on a computer- driven conveyor belt. A voice-recognition system, responding to their commands, dumps each piece of luggage into a tray marked for the appropriate airport and sends it rolling toward its destination...
...House JCR can become uncomfortable at times but works well in throwing the audience deeper into the dramatic center. Wagman keeps the set sparse and unobtrusive, utilizing the faded sofa pillows from the JCR and adding only two chairs. The standard minimalist setting is supplemented only by a coffee tray and liquor stand. Wagman has just the right amount of cigarette lighting, coffee pouring and brandy sipping, to parallel the growing tension in the room...
...casting process | was ripped from nature. On display at the MOMA show is a wooden mold used to make Aalto's 1936 Savoy vase: the length of dugout tree trunk is equipment that a Hobbit industrialist would use. But Aalto was no whole-earth nostalgist. His 1947 snack tray, molded of thick white plastic with troughs for food, is sci-fi urban, and surely the most formal TV-dinner platter ever made...
...between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...
...unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...