Word: angular
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...entire 70-ft.-deep basin as a kind of primordial imprint of the towers. Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails. Libeskind's plan would surround that pit with a force field of angular towers at street level. The workaday world could carry on its business without trampling the memory of the dead...
Sound--"the voice of the site"--is still crucial to his design work. The emotional climax of the Jewish Museum is a trapezoidal room that signifies the catastrophe of the Holocaust. Visitors enter an angular, concrete cell in which the only light comes from a narrow slot high above. When the heavy door is closed behind you, you are simply there in the dark, confronting the desolation of history at one of its bleakest dead ends. You can barely hear the street traffic outside; the world cannot hear...
Fortunately, Timbaland rises to the challenge with some of his most potent work to date. Looking to old-school predecessors for inspiration, he ditches his trademark angular stutter-step to anchor the beats in thunderous boom-bap, charging them with a newfound immediacy. The low-end artillery in “Funky Fresh Dressed” sounds made for a gargantuan boom box, and “Slide’s” ominous boom reels in the body like a black hole. Though technology coats the beats in platinum, the classic hip-hop samples laced throughout the album lend...
...Could you live their lives better than they do? And Trading Spaces' success has inspired a raft of shows that are as much about love as about louvers. Take HGTV's Designing for the Sexes, where spouses gamely spar over home projects, Mars-and-Venus style; one husband wants angular stones for the new fireplace because they're more "manly" than curvy river rocks. On Discovery's Surprise by Design, people race against the clock to give their unsuspecting spouses a room or garden makeover (TLC's While You Were Out takes a similar tack). Supplemented with wedding videos...
...doctors believe her sensations were caused by a failure of the brain to integrate tactile sensations and balance. Transient out-of-body experiences can occur in anyone, but a glance around is usually all it takes to ground the brain in reality again. The right angular gyrus, however, sits quite near the vestibular cortex, the seat of balance. Jolting the Swiss patient's gyrus apparently threw the delicate feedback system out of synch--creating a state of neural chaos that was exacerbated when she moved her eyes and body. Whether shamans achieve the same state through meditation is impossible...