Word: cements
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...named Juliet, throws in her lot with a man she meets on an overnight railway trip. The stories then follow her across decades as time works its deeper operations--slowly, definitively, sometimes mercilessly. "So this is grief," she thinks at one point. "She feels as if a sack of cement has been poured into her and quickly hardened." After many years she arrives at last at a final equilibrium that could almost be called peace if you did not know all the things that still linger bitterly within...
...podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When the shells at first proved too irregular to cast from cement, Utzon drew on a 900-year-old Chinese treatise on architecture, Ying Zao Fa Shi, which taught the pure assembly of standardized elements. His solution was to construct the shells from prefabricated segments of the one sphere, so they could be self-supporting. Utzon had just standardized his plywood interiors...
...totaled three assists on the game, scored on an empty net with 14.8 seconds left to cement...
Mixing glass with cement may seem strange, but that is what Aron Losonczi, a Hungarian architect, has done to create a transparent concrete called LiTraCon. Glass in the form of fiber optics allows light to filter through the material, creating a surreal effect. Available in sheets 2 in. or more wide, LiTraCon is as strong as regular concrete and can be used for walls, flooring or sculpture. It is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington through...
...cement rows aside, offering vocal support for one’s side of choice is, as it turns out, a widely accepted practice nowadays, particularly when done at the proper moment. And the series leading up to Clifton Dawson’s game-winning touchdown run qualifies by most standards. So I informed the disappointed ticket holder that he would, in fact, have to stand...