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Across the street, GapKids has its own take on this trend. In this case, the effect is predominantly flower child. The headbands are not made from actual bra straps. Instead, they are skinny, tubular strips of stretchy material. They come in all the primary colors, with white stripes. These only cost...
...While the juxtaposition of matte and glossy plastic is pure cutting edge, tubular Muji measures the same satisfying circumference as a McDonald's straw. Without special curves, ergonomic handles or even a silver clip, it is light and modern, ethereal and pragmatic...
...panties and put them in her mouth. They also began rubbing branches and leaves around her nose and mouth. Police found pieces of leaves stuffed in Ryan's nostrils. Nathaniel testified that a half-inch gash around Ryan's genitals was believed to have been caused by a "small tubular object," later identified as a twig. According to Nathaniel's testimony, the boys admitted stashing Ryan's bicycle in a weeded lot and returning later that night to discover that it had disappeared. It has never been recovered...
...this began a lifetime's fascination with structure. His art training was, in fact, classical. His main teacher was Jean-Leon Gerome, academic par excellence, and it's not much of a stretch to suppose that the Geromes and Bouguereaus he saw, with their pale, continuously rounded flesh (tubular, in a way) and their meticulous highlights, influenced the "Tubism" of his maturing style. The manikins in his Contrast of Form paintings, such as Exit the Ballets Russes, 1914, project a strange mixture of nervousness and solidity--sexless tin men bustling about in a narrow, overcrowded space...
...Fire Safety Alert" has been posted in upperclass houses which warns against the dangers of halogen lamps. This alert says that lamps with 500-watt tubular halogen bulbs are now prohibited by the University...