Word: circularity
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Planting the viewer firmly in the center of a vast circular auditorium, the Telephone Association pavilion shows him a 360° screen, then surrounds him with the sea, puts him in the middle of a hockey game, the Mounties on parade, Montreal's skyline, and a hundred other spectacular Canadian sights. The exhibit's faults are derived from its virtues. Except for the African chameleon, there are few living creatures who can see in back of their heads; in theory, a film in the round is a dazzling Disney process, but at any given moment...
...reason for them," says Gibberd. The new cathedral's shape derived from the emphasis on the high altar, visible to the congregation from all sides. This dictated a cathedral-in-the-round, with 2,000 worshipers seated no more than 80 feet from the altar. He surrounded his circular nave with 16 individually shaped satellite chapels and anterooms, each set off from the next by 1-in.-thick blue stained-glass panels, extended a piazza to roof over an English Wrenaissance crypt built in the 1930s, and made the lower level a 200-car parking area with elevators from...
...hope is to open the range of the senses To beyond the removals that thought makes. To the whole horizon, to the vastness of sunlight and circularity. I want a horizon centered, I want to stand, on a circular threshing floor, in a Peloponnesian plain. And deliver my senses there, for a permanent moment, to kind wind...
Unlucky 15. The rumors were given credence by Soyuz's name (it means "union") and its initial low and nearly circular orbit, which appeared to be designed to make Soyuz an easier rendezvous target. Also, the orbit's 51.5° inclination to the equator was close to the 51° parking-orbit inclination previously used by unmanned Russian moon probes...
...promise of scandal, much of funk turned out to be merely cheerfully bizarre. Sue Bitney's Family Portrait, a rainbow-hued collection of triangular, circular and arched abstract forms made of painted wood, stuffed canvas and hairy cloth, looked like a creative child's garden of playthings. Kenneth Price's egg-shaped ceramic, glossily glazed in sea blue, sunny yellow and golfing green, beguiled the eye with its nonobjective purity...