Getting an incandescent bulb to shine any distance in a glass pipe is like trying to pour water into the wrong end of a funnel--you lose so much, it isn't worth it.

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The footage appears to show Rob Ford "sitting in a chair, wearing a white shirt, top buttons open, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe, " the newspaper says.

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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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The Pipe and Glass, Beverley.

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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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Hawkins paces out just one square foot of foreshore and picks up Victorian plate, modern glass, oyster shell, medieval roof tile, granite ballast from merchant ships and clay pipe stems.

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While the 4, 000 pipe temple organ could still produce the music of angels, and the intricate stained-glass windows continued to send into the sanctuary an astounding array of colors that changed with the time of day, some other parts of the building had been made out of cheap studio back lot-quality materials.

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