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Phillips also offered advice on how to deal with the salt that creeps into dorm rooms on the underside of boots. Her one-word recommendation, "Hoover!" referred to the handy vacuum cleaner...
...even these gadgets may be putting aircraft at risk. A Walkman-type radio tuned to an FM station generates oscillations that can extend 5 ft. to 12 ft. -- far enough, in some planes, to reach the navigation equipment stowed in and around the cockpit. "With their thick wires and vacuum tubes, the old planes probably wouldn't feel a thing," ) says Bruce Nordwall, avionics editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology. "But the low-power circuits in modern aircraft are much more susceptible to interference...
...food containers known for their large scale and cut-out bases. These dramatic pieces of near technical perfection should not be missed. The other wares of the Three Kingdoms Period show the influences of different media on the ceramic tradition; perhaps Korean ceramics should not be examined in a vacuum but rather in conjunction with other arts of Korea as well...
...start of his career, about 14 years ago, the world was not ready for Koons. He made his first works, inflatable plastic flowers bought in a dime store and set in front of mirrors, without many people noticing. A second group of objects, vacuum cleaners displayed in highly lighted Plexiglas cases, failed at first to excite the indifferent collectors. How could this be? "I've always loved sales," Koons remarks in the catalog, "and to me, being a salesman is being very generous to the public because you're meeting the needs of the people...
...wall label that prepares the eager visitor for the X-rated room in which these tidbits are displayed, the museum points out that "the artist and his wife function in a manner not unlike the vacuum cleaners," which is true, though not perhaps as meant. The text compares the "shocking" character of Made in Heaven to other once shocking works of the past, such as Courbet's Burial at Ornans, Matisse's Woman with the Hat and Manet's Olympia. And yet it adds, "All this is not to say that Koons' art is equivalent to the greatest work...