Gehry script
 Saturday, July 1, 2006
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Garrison Keillor: If you're asked to bring a salad to the picnic, and you're tired of the same old stuff, how about a fruit salad using the Frank Gehry melon baller. (SCOOP - CONSTRUCTION SOUNDS - PLOP - TA-DA!) It gives you a ball deconstructs the melon into swooping geometric forms like the Guggenheim in Bilbao, or the Disney Concert Hall in L.A. More than a melon ball, it's an essay in geometric form.

Melon shaped of modern theory
Make your balls with a Gehry.

The Gehry melon baller.

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