And Dr Chung has raised half the money needed for a building in Texas to demonstrate conductive concrete's gift for self-sensing and electromagnetic shielding.The American army, which has funded part of Global Contour's research, is interested in using conductive concrete in military facilities and bunkers, as well as on roads at border crossings.
In between, there are rather a lot of concrete apartment blocks, gifts from the eastern bloc.
Some of these tenants are basically just vague hippie garble, like practicing "radical self-expression" and making a "communal effort," but others are more concrete rules like "gifting," which essentially means that nothing is for sale and everybody should just share with everybody else.
Many comparisons come to mind, from early Conceptualism and concrete poetry to Shaker "gift drawings" and minuscule calligraphic traditions.
From earliest adolescence, Ms. Corrie, who wanted to be a poet, had a voice that was unusually and emphatically her own, and a precocious gift for concrete metaphors that give form to nebulous feelings.
Yet these stories are linked by what the French scholar and translator Michel Aucouturier calls Tolstoy's "gift of concrete realisation", and an ever-restless breed of philosophical inquiry – a combination that could produce works of an intensity that surprises even after repeated readings.
"Deep Thoughts" typically pair a keen observational eye with a declarative genius, a gift for the concrete utterance.
He bought cases of wine, a concrete bench, a wall-mounted fountain, gift certificates and various knickknacks at a gift fair in Santa Clara.
A broken antique radio – a wedding gift, Guan says – sits on a crumbling concrete bed, untouched for decades.
Lanchester has a gift for making the abstract world of large numbers concrete.
