Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safely. After investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board sent a number of recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration for implementation as an "airworthiness directive." The directive, a drastic order with compliance supervised by the FAA, would have forced McDonnell Douglas and airlines flying the DC-10 to make certain design changes in the cargo door...
Leachim was created for Teacher Gail Freeman by her husband Michael after she complained repeatedly about the time she had to spend with her students on drill and review. A doctoral candidate and professor of management sciences at Bernard Baruch College, Michael spent 18 months and $ 1,000 to design, build and program Leachim (Michael spelled backward, more or less), a 5-ft. 5-in., 200-lb. humanoid with black plastic arms and legs. Although his legs are motorized, he is chained and bolted to a table for security. The robot's brain is a computer, made partly from...
...Died. Louis I. Kahn, 73 (TIME, Jan.15,1973), a seminal architect for the past two decades; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Kahn was a relatively obscure teacher until the early 1950s, when his first major design, the Yale Art Gallery, was constructed. After that, his influence-as seen in the designs of such disciples as Charles Moore and Pop Architect Robert Venturi-became enormous. Kahn was primarily concerned with principles of order and light. His work featured the use of stark, geometric shapes and an emphasis on natural light and the moods created by it. He also incorporated such...
...Eskimos, the Aleuts, the Tlingits and the Athabaskans incorporate rams' heads into their basket designs and polar bears into their pipes. When these people grace a carved ivory harpoon rest with two otters, it's not for the sake of design, but for their religion, that the two belong together...
...repeating patterns, and these forms are more refined than the colorless, stark Eskimo style. But they are also less striking. The white man's influence shows most clearly in an "Octopus bag" made of felt, cotton, calico and brightly colored polychrome beads--all brought by white men. The resulting design is uncomfortably garish and foreign to the rest of the style...