Given the tendency in our society to complexity rather than to simplicity, and given the power of special interests versus the general good, a clean, elegant solution won't come easy.

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His mentor and idol for many years, the modern movement's austere and elegant master, Mies van der Rohe, once famously said that you can't invent a new architecture every Monday morning, but that would have suited Philip Johnson's restless mind perfectly.

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Unlike the rubber-backed M7, the M10 sports a brushed-metal finish on the rear, which looks more elegant but doesn't provide the same comfy fit in the hand.

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"I do a kind of elegant hobble is the best I can manage - my left arm isn't much good yet and I've got a lot of physio still to do, " he said.

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What makes such a solution particularly elegant is that Wall Street and the media will scream that you don't understand what you're doing and that their "perceived" inflation is going to go through the roof.

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If you don't mind tugging, you can definitely keep it close, but we were expecting a somewhat more elegant solution for having the canister trail the brush bar.

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