Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until 6 minutes and 58 seconds had elapsed that Quinn, picking up the ball near the midfield stripe, dodged downfield, without passing off, and in the midst of flummoxed Williams defenders scored in the air. But Pinkard and Dan Entwisle tallied for the Ephmen to cushion the lead...
Coma's squad, which was featured in an article in the current issue of Sports Illustrated, would not cooperate and matched Harvard basket for basket until the Crimson's spurt to its nine point cushion in the second half...
...Transportation Technology-Otis system uses six-to-ten-passenger Hovair vehicles that float on a cushion of air between them and a trackway. The blast of air that keeps the vehicles suspended is produced by electric engines, but the cars are pulled along by electromagnets that are embedded in a third rail in the track and controlled by a computer...
...this parade of exquisitely designed objects, from lamps to ashtrays to such inviting modular sofas as Mario Bellini's "Chameleon" cushion system (see color page), it is apparent that the functionalist concerns of the Bauhaus are receding. Some emphasis has shifted to furniture as dream or fetish or ikon. Thus Gae Aulenti designs a variable bookcase/shelf/sleeping-platform unit that, glittering in vermilion fiber glass, resembles a Mayan sacrificial altar; while Sottsass's red ceramic vase has the archaic look of a ziggurat...
Unmarked Vans. No show in the staid B.M.'s history ever generated such fuss or demanded such elaborate preparation. First, a firm of English packers spent five weeks in Cairo crating the treasures-each wrapped in cellophane, encased in plastic quilts, set on a foam cushion tray and finally shut in a carpeted crate. The museum stepped up its security precautions. When this groundwork (estimated cost: $900,000) had been done, the 41 crates were flown at night from Cairo in two BOAC freighters and one R.A.F. jet, then secretly whisked to the museum. Fearing hijackers, the English authorities...