He has demonstrated that those materials that are commonly regarded as traditional can be used in support of an aesthetic which seems to run counter to everything that their use has seemed to embody in the past.
He pads to the bathroom and puts a hand on his bathroom countertop, made of DuPont's Corian, a common household counter-top material that is largely acrylic.
Or is that counter-productive?
They are also used in scintillation counters, which contain a material that produces flashes of light when struck by X rays or gamma rays, coupled to a photomultiplier that counts the flashes and measures their intensity.
The first is countering deceptive materials that aim to prevent certain voters from going to the polls.
In National Review, James S. Robbins says that the Bushies were in the right to declassify material to counter their critics, but he questions their tactics: The administration's error, if anything, was using press leaks to distribute the information.
One F.B.I. agent, Chad Joy, has said in an affidavit that he sat in on meetings in which Stevens prosecutors were clearly aware that they were ignoring their professional obligations to turn over materials that the defense could use to counter the charges.
The most widely used material for soil treatment is cement, a trend that runs counter to environmentally friendly practice.
When mainstream critics disdained his material, he countered that his favorite artists were prolific, masterful realists: "These guys could flat-out paint," Mr. Jaster said.
With no time to prepare material for counter-arguments, debaters are forced to think on their feet, a task that requires practice as well as skill.
"A lot of people think of spaces as being about materials — granite counters and mirrored walls and 1930's furniture — but it's really not about that at all," Ms. Joseph said.
