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...staged an extraordinary laboratory encounter between a crown-of-thorns and a pair of painted shrimps.* It was hardly a match. Oblivious to the starfish's poisonous spines, the shrimps quickly lifted one of its arms (it can have as many as 21) and began tickling the tiny tubular feet of its prey. Instantly, the starfish retracted them, effectively immobilizing itself. Then, after only a few minutes of joint effort, the two-inch-long shrimps succeeded in toppling the large (more than a foot across) crown-of-thorns onto its back, even though it weighed 100 times as much...
...tubular shape of the oboe could be called its neck. We had thought of expressing this by saying that the body of the oboe is its neck, but anticipated the manner in which it would have revealed a problem concerned with the naming of things: the danger of confusing those two portions of our anatomy, the body and the neck. I know the objection may be raised that nothing is less familiar to us than our own necks; to which I would reply that if we were to lose them, to have our necks somehow severed from our heads...
...accouterments of the years between the two World Wars, from jewelry to architectural decoration, are now being rediscovered in much the same fashion that Art Nouveau was a decade or so ago. The Cubist-patterned rugs and lacquered sideboards mother threw out daughter eagerly buys in thrift shops. The tubular lamps and muscular lobby murals that embarrassed board chairmen ten years ago are now sought by youthful cultists and even a few museums. Somewhere along the way, the style acquired a name: Art Deco...
...show leaves out no detail concerning the sculpture. The poster and catalogue are decorated even with an x-ray of a bronze edition of jaunty Ratapoil. White lines indicate the density of the metal and tubular inner supports. It suggests the complexiy of the technical study done on each piece, while weaving its own oddly beautiful pattern...
...bird that rolled out of the hangar at Toulouse, one year late for its first test flight, had the ungainly look of a pterodactyl. Its drooping snout reared four stories above the Tarmac; the delta wings that extended from its tubular 191-ft. body seemed barely big enough to support it. But when Test Pilot Andre Turcat gunned the cluster of four jet engines, the Concorde climbed swiftly and steeply. After 27 minutes of subsonic flight, it made an equally flawless, steep-pitched landing. After that, champagne corks popped around Blagnac Airport, and newspapers in Britain and France brought...