The glassblower must turn the pipe constantly so that the thick liquid glass does not fall off the end.

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He or she then blows through the pipe so that the glass expands into a rounded bubble form.

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Glassblowing involves gathering hot liquid glass on the end of a metal pipe called a blowpipe.

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The Pipe and Glass, Beverley.

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Now, stories of extremely bad behavior by Ford, a burly populist who refers to his conservative supporters as "Ford Nation, " have transfixed North Americans following published accounts of a video that apparently shows him puffing from a glass crack pipe.

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Interiors were characterized by the economical and innovative use of standard industrial products like aluminum pipe, factory lighting, and warehouse shelving with chemical and pharmaceutical glass and ceramic accessories. (You wouldn't want what your parents liked anyway.) The machine aesthetic of modernism was remade into an industrial arte povera of "found" components for the look that became known and celebrated as High Tech.

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