On a desk in his mahogany-lined corner office he keeps a marble cube engraved with the Chinese characters that spell out the word "crisis" - one character representing danger, the other opportunity.

In making it, the challenge has been to cut to the core of a very resistant material - in this case a perfect marble cube - so that the cube is not destroyed but investigated and transformed.

He had not expected any drainage facilities, but this had a wooden pipe leading down and out, and the floor was of pink cement set with little marble cubes.

(1921): a metal bird cage, painted white, containing 151 marble cubes, a thermometer, and a piece of cuttlebone--the internal shell of a squid-like creature, used, according to the dictionary, as "a dietary supplement for caged birds."

His memorial--as specified in his will, I later discovered--was a marble cube forty centimeters on each side.

Each winner received $1,000 and a marble cube with the seal of the Court.

It's across the continent, in a gleaming marble cube on Rodeo Drive.

An explanation for the piece given by Duchamp involves the coldness of the marble cubes, the "heat-giving" properties of the sugar cubes, the thermometer evaluating temperature, and the sneezing that can result from cold.

Tall-columned walks surrounded the Barsalla palace on both levels, and the white marble cube covered most of the walled grounds.

Just beyond the entrance to the gallery, a stack of polished white marble cubes, held together by steel pins and string, is set next to a model of his Turning Torso apartment tower, recently completed in Malmo, Sweden.