In the 1950's there were lamps shaped like textbook illustrations of atoms.

On the stand were a tissue box and a ceramic lamp, the base white, ovular, shaped like a giant cocoon.

Mr. Bernstrand's Sugar Ray, a rubber hanging lamp shaped like a punching bag, lights up when you hit it.

On the desk, there is a lamp shaped like a football helmet with "UCLA" printed on the side.

There was a lamp shaped like a swan, a single crystal flute beside an empty bottle of champagne.

Delicate lamps shaped like flowers cast a soft glow over Michio Hall's roof garden.

Overhead, three lamps shaped like lilies, the symbol for redemption, turn and swivel as a prison camp's searchlights do.

Inside is a lamp shaped like a woman's leg wearing a fishnet stocking.

Between two antique world globes at the ends of the desk, he writes, by hand or typewriter, under a lamp shaped like a classical column.