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Japanese fan ($12.50) from Southwest Gallery, Austin. Until a few years ago, we Texans thought we had it made in the shade. The mar­vel of central air conditioning in our homes, our cars, our offices, our stores, even our tractors was the final an­swer to ninety-degree-heat and ninety per cent humidity: Then came the energy crisis. Today we are warmer, but we are also wiser. Now that many of us can no longer af­ford central air conditioners, indeed even room air conditioners, we are coming to realize that spending a sum­mer in a totally air-condi­tioned city is like spending five months in a meat locker. This decade calls for a dif­ferent solution to the problem of heat. Not surprisingly, the answer has been, around a long time, possibly since the end of the first Ice Age. The solution to our dilemma is in a word, the fan.

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