Word: compassing
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...return to Moscow, was a rejection of sculpture as mass in favor of an expression of "continuous depth," as more befitting what was soon to become the space age. "With the plumb line in our hand, eyes as precise as a ruler, in a spirit as taut as a compass," he affirmed "kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time...
...That Man From Rio. This film permitted him to be much more relaxed and spontaneous, qualities very essential to his kind of humor. While A Woman is a Woman may not be Godard's best work, the film proves beyond dispute that outright comedy is well within the compass of the New Wave...
...will soon swarm its halls, he barred automobiles from the campus in favor of elevated pedestrian expressways that connect the actual city outside with the academic core of the college. The crisp, die-straight expressways are bordered by stone bollards and giant chains. From the four points of the compass, these airborne paths lead to a 300-ft. by 450-ft. elevated slab, a great, raised court that has become the students' principal rendezvous...
...setting of celestial bodies, perhaps the sun or certain stars or planets. Returning to the U.S. with accurate charts of Stonehenge, he plotted the positions of its center point and of each significant stone, archway, hole and mound, then fed the data into a computer programmed to calculate the compass directions established by 120 pairs of such positions and the points where a line drawn through them would meet the horizon...
That is about all John Updike has to say in his fourth novel, which will disappoint those admirers who have been waiting hopefully for a major talent to produce a major work. Instead of expanding, the Updike compass appears to be narrowing, as if its wielder were desirous of proving that he can, if need be, engrave his graceful arabesques on the head of a pin. Of the Farm barely qualifies as a novel; it is too brief, inactive and unambitious. But as a delicate cameo that freezes three people in postures that none of them finds comfortable...