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...breaking apart clay models, pulling out the wheels until they stood at the edge of the metal, stretching them to the very extremes front and back, pushing the windshield over the hood until it began to look like the front of a locomotive. The changes opened up the height, width and interior space in ways that had never been experienced in similar-size cars. The result was a design as instantly recognizable and distinctive as Harley Earl's fins, one that almost overnight changed the rules in the other creative studios of Detroit. Who would ever have thought that Chrysler...
...those who don't want to risk a less than perfect holiday can frolic at the Seagaia complex in Miyazaki, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, 930 miles south of Tokyo. The ocean that surges and rolls within it, chlorinated and free of salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons of crushed, polished pebbles, all under a 660-ft. retractable roof. The chirping of birds is filtered through a sound system and echoes in the air even as plastic palm trees flutter in a piped-in breeze...
...National Hockey League, where violence is routine, the cheap shot that Washington Capitals center Dale Hunter put on New York Islander Pierre Turgeon bordered on the criminal. After scoring the Islanders' winning goal, Turgeon skated away in unguarded celebration. But Hunter stalked the unsuspecting Islander high scorer half the width of the rink, blindsiding him with a vicious check that separated his shoulder and sidelined him for the rest of the play-offs. Hunter will pay for his revenge: a 21-game suspension next season and $150,000 docked from his salary...
...hands, the act of drawing acquired an extraordinary power and range. It was, in one sense, sculptural: the dense shadows of ink wash convey the shape and width of a head or a body with such emphasis that you feel you could almost lift it off the page. Drawings like Two Men Conversing or The Drinkers are so vivid in their tonal structure, and at the same time so natural and unpretentious in their expression, that you feel included in the meetings they depict. Daumier's line is always in motion, and startlingly responsive to the perceived moment...
...main workroom staffers are looking at semi-finished garments on the house models. Everybody speaks up -- about the width of a belt, the choice of footwear ("I hate those shoes!"). Staring into the mirrors with the intensity of a dancer in a practice studio, the designer ponders. A filmy navy chiffon skirt gets an instant reaction: "Georgette." It seems that the diaphanous chiffon is too light; the slightly heavier georgette will hang better. So an order is placed with the fabric house in Italy. It will take 24 hours for delivery -- if the fabric house has an acceptable navy...