Word: circularity
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...architect of the Kennedy complex, hopes to have the library completed by July 1976. Early last month he unveiled tentative plans which included a semi-circular building housing the memorial to the late President a library and the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics. That building is bordered on two sides by the "related facilities" building which includes 150 luxury condominium apartments and commercial space...
...birth, rediscovering and freely adapting ancient and traditional patterns, with a sense of excitement much like the Cubists' on their first encounter with primitive art. Traditional Oriental pieces, such as a high one-piece silver collar from Thailand that gives the illusion of being five separate circular necklaces heaped one atop the other, go perfectly with the elegantly simple lines of contemporary high-fashion clothing. So do the intricately crafted silver and turquoise belts and vertebrae-like necklaces hammered out by Indian metalworkers of the Navajo, Zuñi and Hopi tribes. The similarity between...
Harry Callahan testifies to the photographer's involvement with the graphic arts. His "Multiple Exposure Tree" with fine-lined branches appears to be an ink sketch rather than a photograph; the circular motion, spontaneity and simplicity of coal black against white evoke the calligraphy and bold brush strokes of Japanese artists...
...BORING TECHNIQUE. And boredom--a tense Godot-like waiting, the boredom of the recurrent cycle--is an essential fact of life in the cylinder. The wandering is circular. The pulsing of light and fluctuation of temperature form a cycle that is agonizing both in its recurrence and in the possibility that it will end: "Its restlessness at long intervals suddenly stilled like panting at the last. Then all go dead. It is perhaps the end of their abode. A few seconds and all begins again...
Last week the Vatican sought again to correct that problem by clamping a firm ceiling on fees for Rota trials-and promptly found itself under fire from both the press and the Rota lawyers. In a circular letter to bishops, Dino Cardinal Staffa, the curial prefect whose jurisdiction includes the Rota, explained that lawyers' fees for annulment cases would henceforth be permitted to range only from $255 to $510. Trial costs would range from $425 to $595. To ensure compliance with the ceilings, all costs would be paid to the court, which would then pay the lawyers...