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...better to lament the tyranny of appearance than through such understated anecdotes, rendered in prose that, despite occasional embarrassments ("Everything in the room seems to have pitted tubular chrome legs"), is reminiscent of Updike...
Harvard's recently renamed Dana-Farber Institute typifies he tubular vision of most cancer research centers, where emphasis is on the clinical, no the environmental causes of cancer. The foundation devotes little to none of its $20 million in annual funds to the investigation of physical or chemical carcinogens. Rather, it divides its research into four broad categories: virology, genetics, immunology, and treatment...
...marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform. They give an impression of preconscious liveliness-nature on the march. Their aura gets a little more sinister in a large carving, Femme-Maison '81, done in black marble: a waving cluster of long tubular shapes, frondlike rather than phallic, rustling and jostling against one another with a peculiar, irresistible energy, that rear up around a plateau on which reposes a small schematically carved shed...
...town of Lone Star (pop. 2,036), the Lone Star Steel Co. shut down last month, laying off 3,500 workers. Nearly 75% of the town's residents work at the plant, and most of the others are employed by firms that depend on the factory, which made tubular steel for oil pipes. But when no one is drilling, no one is buying tubular pipes. Opinion in Lone Star is divided about when, or even whether, prosperity will return to town. "There's a lot of people leaving, and we know we'll lose some good citizens...
...sculptural use of steel and concrete helped shape the furniture and buildings of the 20th century; of heart disease; in New York City. Working with Walter Gropius at Germany's famous Bauhaus during the 1920s, Breuer was inspired by the curve of bicycle handles to design his celebrated tubular steel and leather Wassily chair (named for Painter Wassily Kandinsky, one of its first purchasers). After leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, he created the simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937 to teach at Harvard...