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...strict Calvinist schoolteacher, Mondrian began his art studies in Holland. In the Guggenheim show, we first meet him around 1890, painting talented but not remarkable brown Netherlands landscapes and still lifes. Though Mondrian came to detest nature, the flat horizons punctuated by vertical poplars and crisscross windmills gave him a set of predilections about form which survived through his career-immeasurably refined and philosophized...
...three women are three sisters--Ma is introduced. She's a tough old lady. As much of a talker and as big a pain in the ass as any-of her daughters, as Pa (Robert Donley) himself points out. You're a wrinkled old bastard, she replies in the crisscross of invective that bind the two together. And Furth has made his point. Each of the women is her mother's daughter ("Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," to quote Pope on the matter) and each has won success from life to the extent to which...
...July 26 (at 9:34 a.m., E.D.T.), the 6.4 million-lb. rocket will hurl U.S. astronauts toward a perilous landing at the foot of the moon's towering, 12,000-ft.-high Apennine Mountains. During their 67-hour visit, twice as long as any previous stay, they will crisscross more than 22 miles of lunar terrain, traveling to the very edge of a winding, quarter-mile-deep gorge called Had ley Rille in the forbidding lunar highlands. Before their return to earth with an expected haul of 250 Ibs. of moon rocks, they will put a tiny scientific satellite...
What are the differences among these tires? In the bias-ply tires, the rubber tread is attached to a casing made of crisscross layers of rayon or nylon (see diagram). The belted models are built the same way, but in addition they have two or more rigid belts of fiber glass encircling the tire under the tread. Helped by these extra belts, the tire grips the road better, wears up to 15% or 20% longer, is less likely to be punctured. In the radials, the casing cords run in straight lines instead of a crisscross pattern, and as many...
...other markets. Both partners hope to capitalize on Pirelli's expertise in radial tires. The radial, with the cords in its fabric at right angles to the direction of wheel turn, lasts longer than softer-riding conventional tires, which have the fabric running diagonally in crisscross layers...