Word: tubularity
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...extremes that Paris dreams up are not the bulk of what Paris turns out. But the excitement over the new 1958 fashions last week was all about the extremes: long, telescopic dresses, tubular coats, enormous, helmetlike fur hats. The styles were so odd, in fact, that the Women's News Service syndicate hired Fashion Expert Iris Hartman, sister-in-law of Dance Satirist Paul Hartman, who took one horrified look and reported: not the New Look, the Mummy Look or the Kept Woman Look, but clothes that looked toadlike. Headlined the New York Journal-American: IT'S GRUESOME...
...Tubular Fiberglas rods, almost impervious to water damage, are available at less than a third the price of laminated bamboo...
...Invented by Gillies; so-called because the flap, while being grafted into its new position, is left attached to a tubular stalk (pedicle) of tissue and thus well supplied with blood. The pedicle is removed later...
...uncluttered. Knight's solution: to build his memorial pavilion between the two levels so that its roof becomes part of the plaza. Inside the glass-walled pavilion is an auditorium in the round. Jutting through the roof of the building into the plaza will be three arrangements of tubular, gold-colored carillons that will soar 80 feet into the air and gently chime throughout the center. "Architecture," said Knight, "will be able to reach out and touch the lives of many more people than would be possible through vision alone...
...minute work was strident, percussion-packed (including chromatic timpani, gavel, tubular bells, xylophone, glockenspiel and gong), full of rhythmic and harmonic shocks. It all came pouring from his inner self, says Diamond, in a kind of continuous stream of consciousness. Now he would like to return to his home in Florence, Italy to pursue his meandering musical consciousness as time and money permit. This winter, however, his fortunes were so low that he was forced to take a job fiddling in the pit orchestra of Leonard Bernstein's Candide...