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As Michael Taussig explains, its founder, Alejo Carpentier, frequented the Surrealist circle in Paris but, precisely, reacted against it: he found it too heavy-handed, in its effort to create magic by taking forms from dream or decontextualizing artifacts from primitive civilizations
Deliberately going against the grain, Tsubota would opt to take a super spartan approach, pairing a flip-top Zippo-style housing with a polycarbonate construction, decidedly square edges, and an overall seamless and extremely minimalist form, ultimately resulting in the Tsubota Hard Edge lighter
The other hallmarks are an anchor (assayed in Birmingham), a lion (sterling silver) and, between them, a letter indicating the date
Smoking and vascular endothelial function Many studies have shown that the vascular endothelium-dependent relaxation response is impaired in smokers and in experimental animal models [42,43,44,45,46,47,48, 54, 55]
The video was unearthed from an attic some 50 years after it was filmed A reel-to-reel home movie which allegedly shows Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe smoking marijuana has emerged after 50 years
