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...relegated to the windowless exterior spaces. The concrete ramps (a favorite Le Corbusier device) and walkways that frame the central plaza add an unwanted clutter. The central, mushroomlike structure is shaped to give the mayor a sumptuous office and the city council an imposing, showcase chamber. But it tapers underneath, around the supporting stem, to fairly unusable space that is filled mainly with a blue-broadloom-covered circular staircase adorned with padded horsehair railings. "I guess you'd call this a meditative spot," says City Hall Coordinator George Bell...
...damage can be is shown by the case of a garageman, cited by Neurosurgeon Arthur Winter of East Orange, N.J. The young mechanic was hit on the head when a car slipped off a jack, but he did not become unconscious or even dizzy, went right back at work underneath the car. That evening he lost his dinner and seemed dazed. At the hospital, no mark was found on the skull, so surgeons had to drill holes in it and search for the trouble. They discovered a mass of blood and drained it. The mechanic eventually recovered his mental alertness...
...glass; interior partitions could fall where whim or esthetics wanted them. Said Léger: "Corbusier made us a present of the white wall"-the perfect neutral setting for art. He hung stairs outside to leave interiors uncluttered. He lifted buildings on stilts, or pilotis, to free pedestrian space underneath, then doubled the available ground plan by building sheltered gardens on the roofs...
...Daddy Inge lets us know before long that underneath all that jargon about repression and frustration and absurdity Tom and Teena really do have feelings and are just scared shitless. As one character so subtly puts it. So we learn in the end that Tom can bawl like the kid he is at heart and Teena can pout and whimper like the bourgeois wife she wants to be. And when that baby comes along, oh Mama, they're so happy and thrilled and in love that you could just cry and cry. You see, life had to teach them something...
...dangerous liquid within the chamber was released as a gas by an ingenious venting system. Pressure on the liquid forced it down into a trap underneath the truncated conical chamber onto a mass of small copper pellets. Heat from the pellets quickly and safely changed the liquid to a gas, which flowed up a chimney, where it was harmlessly ignited...