Word: checkerboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intricate clay corrugations, built generally at right angles to the several rivers in the area and standing in bold relief among the numerous waterways. The ridges are as much as five feet high, 20 feet wide, and a mile long. Other ridges run in checkerboard patterns, while a third type extends in long parallels without apparent orientation to the winding riverbanks...
...pounds). She showed up for a cocktail party in a black, swoop-backed dress with an enormous, eye-arresting bow at the waist. The better to blend with her new California friends, she received from her parents, among other birthday gifts, a huge pair of sporty sunglasses with checkerboard rims. Actually, around George Hamilton, whose thespian career has blossomed like a Texas rose since he began squiring Lynda, the starry-eyed President's daughter blended well enough as it was. "She has a great sense of humor that'll get her through anything," said one of their...
...coast of Southern California, the last crew of aquanauts surfaced from the U.S. Navy's Sealab II (TIME, Sept. 17), and its 45-day mission at a depth of 205 ft. was declared an "unqualified success." Off Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, a yellow and black checkerboard-patterned underwater house bobbed its round dome out of the water to the tooting of yacht whistles and the obvious satisfaction of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the pioneering French underwater explorer who had commanded the three-week mission of Con Shelf III (for Continental Shelf) from a lighthouse on shore. Allowing...
...light," said Bonnard, and he was an ingenious supplicant. In the checkerboard tiles that pattern his work, the color changes to harmonize with nearby colors. Nude flesh becomes a chameleon mirror for interior hues; a bathtub becomes an irregular cocoon for the human form. Bonnard's pictures are made of optical bewilderment and caprices of color...
Tabler explains that the checkerboard design is dictated by the fact that the building is braced against earthquakes not only horizontally and vertically but diagonally, and the diagonal girders run through every other square of the checkerboard. "This is the safest hotel in the world," he says. "When an earthquake comes, the people who have been criticizing the outside appearance of the hotel are going to be a lot more complimentary than they...