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PRETTY SHARP The Sharper Image, that glitzy mail-order purveyor of talking chessboards and ionic hair dryers, has a new item that may actually be of some use, especially in counties that prohibit dialing while driving. The cleverly named Car Cell Phone System ($130) is a plug-and-play speakerphone for Nokia and Motorola models that doubles as a handset recharger. Not sharp enough? It comes with a built-in digital recorder that, when activated, grabs the previous 20 seconds of your conversation or message...
Previous assumptions operated under the theory that the nitrogen atom forms a strong ionic bond with a counterion on the brain's target molecule...
...architectural fragments included in this show -- capitals and bases from the 10th century caliphal period, for instance -- one sees the forms of Roman antiquity dissolving into the Islamic taste for allover pattern; eaten away by deep carving, a recognizably Ionic capital turns into a web of exquisite stone lace, a sort of architectural counterpart to the deeply incised ivory caskets and pyxes favored by the courts of al-Andalus. One of the most impressive bowls in this show, a deep conical form bearing on its inside surface a design of a Portuguese nao, or trading ship, so powerful...
Amazing -- and not always, at the time, likable. His 1973 addition to Oberlin College's art museum has a checkerboard exterior and a comically oversize Ionic column inside. Outrageous! The molecular-biology lab at Princeton, designed in 1983, has a wild Argyle sheathing of bricks and oddly orientalized archways. Ridiculous...
...fashionable accompaniment to monkfish and Moussy. A welter of tubes puts the zing in San Diego's Fat City restaurant, highlighting 1950s artifacts for the young crowd. At Ichabod's, a trendy West Side Manhattan eatery that opened in March, the visual draw is an imposing Ionic column swathed in blue neon. "Neon is big with the more hip," says Chicago Interior Designer Laura L. Pedian, who did the Wells Street Journal, a local restaurant, in restful blue and gold. "It's part of what's happening today...