Word: tubular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seen from their off-camera sides, however, Bruce's right and left look more like cutaway drawings of an old Messerschmitt 109. Each has a 25-ft. spine of tubular and spring steel, painted a decidedly unsharklike yellow, and 50 bright green, double-jointed ribs, housing some 500 ft. of plastic tubing, 25 remote-controlled valves and 20 electric and pneumatic hoses...
...after more than a decade of concentrating their efforts overseas, the oilmen are sinking an increasing number of U.S. exploratory wells both on land and at sea. Oil companies have sharply increased their budgets for domestic exploration. There is so much new drilling planned that a shortage of tubular casing, drilling platforms and other equipment has developed...
Some other changes, technical and sociological, can at least be imagined for the small-car, gasoline-short future. The car of the next decade may be more tubular-shaped to reduce wind drag, a prime factor in fuel economy, and come equipped with fuel-injection, which measures out the right amount of fuel needed for more complete combustion...
...Washingtonians were betrayed by their heavy winter coats, an anomaly in Los Angeles. No Redstein crowd was complete without a bugler, and loud charges ("Da Da Da DA Da DA") periodically echoed down the tubular walkways of the airport...
...unerring sense of material, texture, esthetics and practicality. These are all marks of good architecture, but they first surfaced in Breuer's furniture: tables, kitchen cabinets and, above all, chairs. Inspired by his bicycle's handlebars in 1925, he bent tubular steel into a frame, slung canvas in between and created the great "Wassily" chair. Handsome as it and later, cantilevered models were, Breuer was not concerned only with looks. "It has been argued that if a chair is beautiful, it is also comfortable," he has said. "This is as questionable as to say: if it is comfortable...