Word: tubefuls
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...fare as at any other bar in the country, no surprises here. The owner says he wants to attract student business but for some reason almost no one in the Yard has ever heard of it. But if you do go in to watch a ball game on the tube you will not feel unwelcome...
...place. Elsewhere, there were signs that the striking miners might be gathering support. Ken Livingstone, the radical leftist leader of the Greater London Council, called for a mass union uprising against Thatcher "because the government is starting to be vulnerable." He proposed "a total stoppage of every bus and tube train into London," as well as walkouts by hospital workers and teachers (who are already on selective strike). Livingstone does not control the unions, but he is a popular figure on the left...
...Sherman family in Manhattan no longer huddles reverently in front of an ordinary boob tube that sits in the corner like a Buddha. Instead, the Shermans laze back in their den and let a wave of sight and sound wash over them from a new $16,000 audio-video system that does just about everything but get up and fetch the beer and popcorn. When Advertising Executive Sherman watches a football game on the new set, the clamor of the crowd blares at him from four speakers installed around the room, and larger-than-life players scramble across...
...only ostensible reference to another building in Pelli's design is perhaps the glass-sheathed escalator bank grafted onto the museum's north wall, overlooking the sculpture garden, which distantly recalls the glass escalator tube on the face of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. But whereas the Pompidou's tube is a mere people mover, MOMA's moving staircases work in a celebratory space, full of light and air. The view through the glass as one mounts and descends can only sharpen the pleasurable contrast between nature and culture that was the point of Philip Johnson...
...When you talk about this later--and you will please be sure to contact my publicity agent....." The Newsstand and the Tube--the two most reliable means of American pop culture--have been conveying a revolutionary message lately about "older" women (females traditionally viewed as less than desirable, i e., those aged 30 and upwards...